Leland Wilkinson
Leland Wilkinson | |
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Born | November 5, 1944 |
Died | December 10, 2021 Lake Forest, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 77)
Alma mater |
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Known for | The Grammar of Graphics |
Spouses | Ruth Elaine VanDemark
(m. 1967; died 2012)Marilyn Vogel (m. 2013) |
Children | 2, including Amie Wilkinson |
Relatives | Alec Wilkinson (brother) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
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Thesis | The effect of involvement on similarity and preference structures (1975) |
Leland Wilkinson (November 5, 1944 – December 10, 2021) was an American
Early life
Wilkinson was born on November 5, 1944, to Kirk C. Wilkinson, an art editor of Woman's Day magazine.[2][3] He is the brother of Alec Wilkinson, a writer for The New Yorker. He graduated from the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York.[3]
Wilkinson received a
Career
Academic career
While attending Yale between 1974 and 1976, he served as an instructor of psychology. He became an assistant professor of psychology at
Wilkinson was recognized as the primary author of the 1999 American Psychological Association's guidelines for statistical methods in psychology journals.[5]
Professional career
Wilkinson wrote
Wilkinson served as the vice president of statistics at Tableau Software, where he continued to work on scientific visualization and statistical graphics.[12] In 2016, he became a chief scientist at H2O.ai to lead a data visualization push;[13] he remained in that role until his death in 2021.[12]
Personal life
Wilkinson married Reverend Ruth Elaine VanDemark on June 23, 1967.[3] She died in 2012.[14] Together, they were the parents of Amie Wilkinson, a professor of mathematics at University of Chicago, and Caroline Wilkinson, a writer.[15] He later married Marilyn Vogel.[16]
Wilkinson died on December 10, 2021, at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, in Lake Forest, Illinois.[17]
Awards
Wilkinson became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1998 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009. He was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute in 2006.[4] Wilkinson received the National Institute of Statistical Sciences Distinguished Service Award in 2010.[4]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-387-98774-6. at Springer
- ^ Wilkinson, Leland; Wills, Graham; Wills, D.; Dubbs, R.; Norton, A. (2006). The Grammar of Graphics. p. 98.
- ^ a b c d "Ruth VanDemark becomes a bride". The New York Times. June 24, 1967. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Leland Wilkinson" (PDF). SPSS. 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 10, 2006. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ Osborne, Jason W. (2013). Best Practices in Data Cleaning. p. 13.
- S2CID 119499841.
- ^ Jones, Lacey; Symanzik, Jürgen. "Statistical Visualization of Environmental Data on the Web Using nViZn" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 5, 2011.
- CRAN (R programming language). June 25, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "Bokeh". GitHub. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- PMID 22937822.
- ^ "Polaris, interactive database visualization". Stanford University. Archived from the original on October 21, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ a b "VP, STATISTICS | Leland Wilkinson". research.tableau.com. Tableau Research. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ Zakrzewski, Cat (April 20, 2016). "Machine Learning Co. H2O.ai Hires Leland Wilkinson to Lead Data Visualization Drive". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "Rev. Ruth E. Van Demark 1944–2012". Illinois State Bar Association. July 19, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "Ruth E. VanDemark (1944–2012) – Obituary". michalikfuneralhome.com. 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ Hauser, Alisa (February 10, 2014). "Victorian Mansion on Wicker Park's Beer Baron's Row Sells for $2.3 Million". DNAinfo. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- FlowingData. December 13, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2021.