Leland Wilkinson

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Leland Wilkinson

Mathematics

#3744

World Rank

#5464

Historical Rank

#1353

USA Rank

Statistics

#277

World Rank

#336

Historical Rank

#100

USA Rank

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Why Is Leland Wilkinson Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Leland Wilkinson was an American statistician and computer scientist at H2O.ai and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago. Wilkinson developed the SYSTAT statistical package in the early 1980s, sold it to SPSS in 1995, and worked at SPSS for 10 years recruiting and managing the visualization team. He left SPSS in 2008 and became Executive VP of SYSTAT Software Inc. in Chicago. He then served as the VP of Data Visualization at Skytree, Inc and VP of Statistics at Tableau Software before joining H2O.ai. His research focused on scientific visualization and statistical graphics. In these communities he was well known for his book The Grammar of Graphics, which was the foundation for the R package ggplot2.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Leland Wilkinson?

Leland Wilkinson is affiliated with the following schools:

• Yale University
• Northwestern University
• University of Illinois Chicago
• Harvard University