On June 10, 2007, the statistician and developer Hadley Wickham officially released ggplot2, a chart-making system for the statistical programming language R. It would alter the course of his life and the future of data visualization.
On June 10, 2007, the statistician and developer Hadley Wickham officially released ggplot2, a chart-making system for the statistical programming language R. It would alter the course of his life and the future of data visualization.
Reginald DesRoches, chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will become dean of Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering July 1.
Genevera Allen is one of five engineering faculty members who have earned promotions in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University.
Fifteen of the 28 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowships received at Rice University for 2017 are current students or graduates of the George R. Brown School of Engineering.
The School of Engineering's 2017 Teaching and Research Excellence Awards go to Genevera Allen of Statistics and Jamie Padgett of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Rice statisticians Katherine Ensor and Loren Raun and Houston Public Health Authority David Persse mapped out regions with high air-quality risks and their proximity to HISD schools and compared them with EMS calls data from 2004 to 2013. A new study concludes that preventable attacks come with a high cost.
Rice University’s $50 million Data Science Initiative will be hiring new faculty members in preparation for creating a new minor, additional classes and possible master’s programs for undergraduate and graduate students at Rice.
A novel statistical approach to analyzing patients with epilepsy has revealed details about their brains’ internal networks.
Qiwei Li and Ryan Warnick won the awards to attend the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings by submitting papers on their research. The conference will be July 29–August 3 in Baltimore, MD.