Linda Williams Pickle (born July 19, 1948) is an American statistician and expert in spatial analysis and data visualization, especially as applied to disease patterns.
She worked as a researcher for the National Cancer Institute, for Georgetown University, and for the National Center for Health Statistics before becoming a statistics consultant and adjunct professor of geography and public health services at Pennsylvania State University.
She attended Harford Community College and then transferred to Johns Hopkins University where she majored in quantitative studies.
She graduated in their first co-educational class in 1974 with honors (Phi Beta Kappa), and then completed a Ph.D. in biostatistics at Johns Hopkins in 1977.
[2] While at NCI, she started their geographic information systems (GIS) program and developed statistical models to examine spatial patterns of cancer.