1. Leland Wilkinson was an American statistician and computer scientist at H2O.
18 Facts About Leland Wilkinson
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Leland Wilkinson left SPSS in 2008 and became executive VP of SYSTAT Software Inc in Chicago.
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Leland Wilkinson then served as the VP of data visualization at Skytree, Inc and VP of statistics at Tableau Software before joining H2O.
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Leland Wilkinson's research focused on scientific visualization and statistical graphics.
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Leland Wilkinson is the brother of Alec Wilkinson, a writer for The New Yorker.
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Leland Wilkinson graduated from the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York.
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Leland Wilkinson received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1966, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from Harvard Divinity School in 1969, and a Ph.
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Leland Wilkinson's thesis was titled The effect of involvement on similarity and preference structures.
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Leland Wilkinson became an assistant professor of psychology at University of Illinois at Chicago in 1976 and was promoted to associate professor in 1980.
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Leland Wilkinson rejoined UIC in 2007 as an adjunct professor of computer science.
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Leland Wilkinson was recognized as the primary author of the 1999 American Psychological Association's guidelines for statistical methods in psychology journals.
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Leland Wilkinson wrote SYSTAT, a statistical software package, in the early 1980s.
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Leland Wilkinson served as the vice president of statistics at Tableau Software, where he continued to work on scientific visualization and statistical graphics.
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Leland Wilkinson married Reverend Ruth Elaine VanDemark on June 23,1967.
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Leland Wilkinson died on December 10,2021, at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, in Lake Forest, Illinois.
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Leland 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.
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Leland Wilkinson was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute in 2006.
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Leland Wilkinson received the National Institute of Statistical Sciences Distinguished Service Award in 2010.