Hadley Wickham

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I鈥檓 Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at <a href="https://posit.co">Posit</a>, where (among other things) I lead the <a href="https://tidyverse.org">tidyverse</a> team. I build tools (computational and cognitive) that make data science easier, faster, and more fun. I鈥檓 from New Zealand but I currently live in Houston, TX with my husband and dogs.</p> <p>If you鈥檇 like to learn more about what I do, and how to use R effectively, you might enjoy one of my books (which are all free to read on the web):</p> <ul> <li><p><a href="http://r4ds.hadley.nz/">R for Data Science</a>, with <a href="https://mine-cr.com">Mine 脟etinkaya-Rundel</a> and Garrett Grolemund, is the place to start if you want to learn how to do data science with R.</p></li> <li><p><a href="https://ggplot2-book.org">ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis</a> shows you how to use ggplot2 to create graphics that help you understand your data.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://adv-r.hadley.nz/">Advanced R</a> helps you master R as a programming language, teaching you what makes R tick.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://r-pkgs.org/">R Packages</a>, with <a href="https://jennybryan.org/about/">Jenny Bryan</a>, teaches good software engineering practices for R, using packages for bundling, documenting, and testing your code.</p></li> </ul> <p>Outside of work, I love to <a href="https://recipes.had.co.nz">bake</a> and make <a href="https://cocktails.hadley.nz">cocktails</a>. My sister <a href="http://cwick.co.nz/">Charlotte</a> also works for Posit as a Developer Educator.</p> </main></div> </div>  <script id="quarto-html-after-body" type="application/javascript"> window.document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function (event) { const toggleBodyColorMode = (bsSheetEl) => { const mode = bsSheetEl.getAttribute("data-mode"); const bodyEl = window.document.querySelector("body"); if (mode === "dark") { bodyEl.classList.add("quarto-dark"); bodyEl.classList.remove("quarto-light"); } else { bodyEl.classList.add("quarto-light"); bodyEl.classList.remove("quarto-dark"); } } const toggleBodyColorPrimary = () => { const bsSheetEl = window.document.querySelector("link#quarto-bootstrap"); if (bsSheetEl) { toggleBodyColorMode(bsSheetEl); } } toggleBodyColorPrimary(); const isCodeAnnotation = (el) => { for (const clz of el.classList) { if (clz.startsWith('code-annotation-')) { return true; } } return false; } const onCopySuccess = function(e) { // button target const button = e.trigger; 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