The American Statistical Association Joint Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Section announced Hadley Wickham as the winner of the 2025 ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Award. He received the award for his influence in statistical computing, visualization, graphics, and data analysis through significant contributions to R software.
Wickham is the chief scientist at Posit PBC, winner of the 2019 COPSS Presidents’ Award, and a member of the R Foundation. He builds computational and cognitive tools to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (e.g., the tidyverse, which includes ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr) and principled software development (e.g., roxygen2, testthat, and pkgdown). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science.
The ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Award is the most prestigious award bestowed by the Joint Statistical Computing and Graphics Section. It recognizes an individual or team for innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a significant impact on statistical practice or research. Past awardees are Douglas Bates (2023), Howard Wainer (2021), Luke Tierney (2019), Bill Cleveland (2016), and Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka (2010).
The Award Committee consisted of the past and present chairs of the Statistical Computing Section (Claire McKay Bowen and Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel) and Section on Statistical Graphics (Susan VanderPlas and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan).
The award will be presented at the sections’ mixer at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings in Nashville, Tennessee. Additionally, an invited session honoring Wickham will be organized by Joyce Cahoon.
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