Background
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs Kirk C. Wilkinson.
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Leland Wilkinson
Edit Profilestatistician computer scientist
Education
Harvard University; Yale University.
Career
Wilkinson developed the SYSTAT statistical package in the early 1980s, sold it to Statistical Package for the Social Sciences in 1995, and worked at Statistical Package for the Social Sciences for 10 years recruiting and managing the visualization team He left Statistical Package for the Social Sciences in 2008 and became Executive VP of SYSTAT Software Incorporated. in Chicago. He then served as the VP of Data Visualization at Skytree, Incorporated, and joined Tableau in October 2014.
His research focuses on scientific visualization and statistical graphics.
Wilkinson received an Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1966, an South.T.B. from Harvard Divinity School in 1969, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from Yale University in 1975. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a full-time faculty member at University of Illinois at Chicago (International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer)).
After serving 10 years as Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Northwestern University, he rejoined International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) as Adjunct Professor of Computer Science. Wilkinson is recognized as the primary author of the 1999 American Psychological Association"s Guidelines for Statistical Methods in Psychology Journals.
Wilkinson wrote SYSTAT, a statistical software package, in the early 1980s.
This program was noted for its comprehensive graphics, including the first software implementation of the heatmap display now widely used among biologists. After his company grew to 50 employees, he sold it to Statistical Package for the Social Sciences in 1995. At Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, he assembled a team of graphics programmers who developed the nViZn platform that produces the visualizations in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, Clementine, and other analytics products.
The nViZn platform was modeled after Wilkinson"s 1999 book on statistical graphics, The Grammar of Graphics.
This book also served as the foundation for the R package ggplot2, the Python Bokeh package, the R package ggbio, and helped shape the Polaris project at Stanford. Wilkinson now serves as VP of Statistics at Tableau Software.
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United States