Hadley Wickham
Location: (Houston, TX)
Personal Research Web Page: http://had.co.nz/
Keywords: visualization, statistics, data analysis, visual analytics, infovis, machine learning
Posted on: Friday, April 30th, 2010
Broad Research Area: Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, Graphics / Visualization
Research Interests:
I’m a statistician working at the intersection of statistical graphics and infovis, developing tools to support better data analysis. I’m particularly interested in visualisation, but my interests span the entire data analysis process from first accessing and reshaping the data into appropriate form for analysis, to the iterative cycle of modelling, visualising and transformation that leads to understanding, and finally to communicating that new knowledge to others.
I’m particularly interested in how we can use visualisation to better understand the complex statistical and machine learning models that are needed to accurately model large quantities of data. The state-of-the-art tools can give incredibly accurate predictions, but how can we open up the black box and understand what these models tell us about the underlying science.
Rice University has a beautiful campus, located in a tree-lined residential neighbour of Houston. From Houston it’s easy to travel anywhere in the country from the Southwest and Continental hub airports. Rice has a particularly strong program of post-doctoral mentoring with many opportunities for you to improve your teaching, research and grant writing skills through workshops, lunches and tutorials. You’ll gain the skills to become a successful academic and prosper on the job market. Finally, Rice has one of the highest rates of free lunches in the country!
Contact Information:
Please email me: hadley@rice.edu
