John Wilder Tukey was born on 16 June 1915 in Massachusetts, U.S.A. He attended Brown University until 1937 and then obtained a PhD in mathematics at Princeton University. During World War II he worked on statistical problems associated with weapons development (such as the accuracy of range finders on bombers). After the was he researched at Princeton and with Bell Labs, concentrating on the study of complex data. He is largely responsible for the development of Exploratory Data Analysis, although his contributions are found in many areas of statistics.

Examples of his collected papers include:

The Collected Works of John W. Tukey : Multiple Comparisons 1948-1983 by John W. Tukey, Henry I. Braun (Editor).

Configural Polysampling : A Route to Practical Robustness (Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Probability in Mathematical Stati) by Stephan Morgenthaler, John W. Tukey (Editor). (1991)

The Collected Works of John W. Tukey : Time Series, 1949-1964 (Wadsworth Statistics/Probability Series) by John Wilder Tukey, et al. (1984)

The Collected Works of John W. Tukey : Philosophy and Principles of Data Analysis : 1965-1986 (The Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole Statistics/Probability S) by Lyle V. Jones(Editor). (1986)

The Collected Works of John W. Tukey : Philosophy and Principles of Data Analysis : 1944-1964 (The Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole Statistics/Probability S) by Lyle V. Jones(Editor). (1986)

Collected Works of John W. Tukey : Graphics 1965-1985 by Williams S. Cleveland(Editor). (1988)

The Collected Works of John W. Tukey : Factorial & Anova (1949-1962) by John Wilder Tukey, D.R. Cox (Editor). (1992)

Collected Works of John W. Tukey (Time Series 1965-1984) by D. R. Brillinger(Editor). (1986)

Collected Works of John W. Tukey by Jeff Brillinger. (1984)

The Practice of Data Analysis : Essays in Honor of John W. Tukey by John Wilder Tukey(Editor), et al. (1998)