Statistics for all: open-source pioneers win million-dollar prize (opens in new tab)

The free, open-source software R has fundamentally transformed research in statistics and data science — and continues to shape the field to this day. Now the pioneers who have driven its development for some 30 years are receiving the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, worth one million US dollars. Among the laureates is Martin Mächler, a mathematician from ETH Zurich.