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R’s Quiet Architect Wins Global Honor | Des Moines News
A newly retired University of Iowa professor, Luke Tierney, is being honored with half a million dollars and global acclaim as one of five recipients of the prestigious Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics — a Nobel-level award for statisticians. For nearly three decades, Tierney has quietly shaped R, the free, open-source data analysis powerhouse, by stabilizing its core and enabling millions of users worldwide. He credits R’s success to its collaborative, community-driven model, where mistakes are quickly fixed and innovation thrives. Even as AI and Python rise, R remains vital — and Tierney, now…
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