Hadley Wickham
Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.
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Liked Domain-Specific Languages
Partly because of another book that nearly made it onto my list: Domain-Specific Languages by Martin Fowler. It talks about the idea of writing a small language inside another language, to express ideas in a specific domain
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Recommends Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace
This book gave me the tools to analyze a text and identify the reasons why it doesn't work, for example stating the topic of a paragraph only in the middle of it. I found it very useful to consciously analyze my own writing.
fivebooks.com 9 Aug 2018
Liked The Art of Readable Code
What I liked about this book is that it gives you a series of techniques to make that smell go away.
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Recommends The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
This is about the craft of software development, and thinking about how to produce good code. As the name suggests, it's a very pragmatic and hands-on book. It really helped me on my journey as a software engineer, to be able to write quality code day in and day out, and be confident that it's going to work correctly.
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Recommends The Algorithm Design Manual
To me, this book is an illustration of the power of names. Today, in the era of Google, if you know the name of something, you can find out about it with a simple search. But if you don't know of what you're looking for, it suddenly becomes much harder to find it. Having in the back of your head the names of common algorithms that help you solve problems is really powerful.
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Liked Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
Another similar and also interesting book is Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, which explains all the models of computer languages and how they fit together.
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Recommends Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
But this book is very useful for somebody like me, with experience in high-level engineering languages, like VBA, PHP and R. They're incredibly useful languages, but ones that computer scientists generally disdain, because they're not theoretically pure or beautiful. This book shows you how languages can be constructed. The most valuable thing it gives you is confidence and knowledge to go and create your own programming language.
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Uses Echofon
I tweet from Echofon, but pretty much only read #rstats related tweets.
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Uses Dropbox
I keep big datasets and shared files in Dropbox - we have a teams account, so I have 1 TB (!) of storage there.
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
Uses Arq
I use Time Machine + an external HDD for local backups (I've given up trying to use it over wireless), and Arq for remote backups to S3.
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Loved Wordament
My current favourite iPhone game is Wordament.
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
Uses Keynote
Disliked Beamer
Mixed on GMail
I use Gmail, but every UI change in the last year has made me like it less.
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Mixed on Adium
I use Adium for chat, because you can make it v. minimal, but Google's crippling of XMPP has made less useful and I have to use Gchat as well.
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
Liked Stayfocusd
Stayfocusd keeps me (mostly) focussed during the work day, and keeps me from distractions like Hacker News and The Old Reader.
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
Uses RStudio
I live mostly in Chrome, the Terminal and RStudio/Sublime Text 2.
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
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Loved Timbuktu messenger bag
Outside of computing, I love my Weber Gold grill, my KitchenAid mixer and my Timbuktu messenger bag.
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
Loved KitchenAid mixer
Outside of computing, I love my Weber Gold grill, my KitchenAid mixer and my Timbuktu messenger bag.
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
Loved Weber Gold grill
Outside of computing, I love my Weber Gold grill, my KitchenAid mixer and my Timbuktu messenger bag.
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
Uses IKEA POÅNG chair
I mostly program sitting in an IKEA POÅNG chair.
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
Uses Shure SE215-K
I have Shure SE215-K headphones, but my electronics recommendations aren't very interesting since I usually just read the wirecutter and order whatever they recommend ;)
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
Loved MacBook Pro Retina
15" MacBook Pro Retina, 2.6 GHz, 16 gig RAM, 500 gig SSD (only half full). I couldn't live without SSD or Retina.
usesthis.com 22 Oct 2013
Where they publish
Site hadley.nz His personal site: books, packages and talks.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
Bluesky @hadley.nz Where he posts about R and data science.
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- I've always felt that #rstats's ranking in the TIOBE index felt a lot like random noise, but every time it gains or drops significantly TIOBE tells a little story about it. So I extracted all those stories into one place: 17 Oct 2026 gist.github.com
- Important knowledge for all those looking to submit an R package 12 Oct 2026
- I'm trying to get better at making short explanatory videos, using AI to radically decrease production time while hopefully still keeping the human touch. I'd love to know what you think of this video that briefly introduces S7: 9 Oct 2026 youtube.com
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- I’m not claiming that this video is particularly good, but this was ~1 minute of prompting, ~$2 of google apis, ~$3 of opus 5.5, and 10 minutes of waiting. I think if you put in even 15 minutes of prompting you could create something solid. 6 Oct 2026
- I've been fixing a bunch of old rvest issues. The economics blow my mind: most issues cost $0.25-$1 to fix with Kimi K3. It makes me feel guilty that these issues have lingered for so long, given that they're now so cheap to fix. 4 Oct 2026
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GitHub @hadley ggplot2, dplyr and the rest of the tidyverse.
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- r-pkgs — Building R packages 21 Oct 2026
- iah-wait-time — Scraping IAH security wait times 21 Oct 2026
- cran-deadlines 21 Oct 2026
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- houston-pollen — Scrape Houston pollen data 20 Oct 2026
- available-work — Scrape Weston Lambert's available products 20 Oct 2026
- bananarama — Generate slide images with google's nano banana 20 Oct 2026
- r4ds — R for data science: a book 19 Oct 2026
- limeaid 17 Oct 2026
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