Hadley Wickham

Hadley Wickham
Assistant Professor / Chief Scientist, Rice University / RStudio

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Hadley Wickham is an Assistant Professor and the Dobelman Family Junior Chair in Statistics at Rice University. He is an active member of the R community, has written and contributed to over 30 R packages, and won the John Chambers Award for Statistical Computing for his work developing tools for data reshaping and visualisation. His research focusses on how to make data analysis better, faster and easier, with a particular emphasis on the use of visualisation to better understand data and models.

Sessions

9:00am Monday, 07/16/2012
Data Science in R
Data
 Location: E145-146
Tags: data_science, r-lang
Hadley Wickham (Rice University / RStudio)
Average rating: ****.
(4.38, 21 ratings)
Learn the basics of R for data science: what makes R special as a language, and what R packages are most important for data manipulation, visualisation and modelling. Read more.
11:30am Thursday, 07/19/2012
Designing effective visualisations: matching data problems to our perceptual strengths
UX
 Location: D137
Tags: visualisation, cognitive_psychology
Hadley Wickham (Rice University / RStudio)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 21 ratings)
Learn the essential bits of cognitive psychology to create effect visualisations that convey what you want them to convey. Read more.

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