John Chambers Award

Past winners

2008

Alejandro Jara Vallejos
Catholic University of Leuven

DPpackage

2007

Heather Turner and David Firth
University of Warwick

gnm

2006

Hadley Wickham
Iowa State University

Reshape and ggplot

2005

Markus Helbig
University of Augsburg

JGR - a Java GUI for R

2003

Daniel Adler
University of Gottingen

RGL - A library linking R to Open GL
An extension to the R system allowing for 3D visualization

Lee Wilkinson, Chair of the Section (left), and Daniel Adler(right). Taken at the Joint Computing and Graphics Sections Mixer/Business Meeting in San Francisco (8/03).

2004

Deepayan Sarkar
University of Wisconsin -- Madison

Lattice

A package implementing Trellis Graphics in R

2002

Simon Urbanek
University of Augsburg

Klassification - Interactive Methods for Trees
Interactive software for the graphical analysis of trees.

Simon Urbanek (left) and John Chambers (right). Taken at the Joint Computing and Graphics Sections Mixer/Business Meeting in New York City (8/02).

2001

Dr. Alessandra Brazzale
Institute for Systems Science and Biomedical Engineering of the Italian National Research Council

HOA: Higher-Order Asymptotics
A library of S-PLUS functions (and data) for higher-order asymptotic inference

2000

From left to right: Brian Smith, John Chambers and Sylvia Winkler. Taken at the Joint Computing and Graphics Sections Mixer/Business Meeting in Indianapolis (8/00).

• Sylvia Winkler
  University of Augsburg

  CASSATT: Coordinate Analysing Statistical Software Applying Tandem Transformations
  The interactive software CASSATT has been developed to visualise high-dimensional, multivariate data using parallel coordinates. CASSATT is platform independent and widens the range of methods for analysing parallel coordinate data. CASSATT uses interactive tools to extend the basic graphic displays.

• Brian Smith
  University of Iowa

  BOA: Bayesian Output Analysis Program
  BOA is an S-PLUS/R program for carrying out convergence diagnostics and statistical and graphical analysis of Monte Carlo sampling output. It can be used as an output processor for the BUGS software or for any other program which produces sampling output.