Publications

Journal articles

NOTE: You’ll find most of these papers as pre-prints on arxiv.

title year journal

Designing the Australian Cancer Atlas: visualizing geostatistical model uncertainty for multiple audiences

 2024 Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

A Tidy Framework and Infrastructure to Systematically Assemble Spatio-temporal Indexes from Multivariate Data

 2024 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Performance Is Not Enough: The Story Told by a Rashomon Quartet

 2024 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

A Plot is Worth a Thousand Tests: Assessing Residual Diagnostics with the Lineup Protocol

 2024 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

A Clustering Algorithm to Organize Satellite Hotspot Data for the Purpose of Tracking Bushfires Remotely

 2023 The R Journal

A Hexagon Tile Map Algorithm for Displaying Spatial Data

 2023 The R Journal

New and Simplified Manual Controls for Projection and Slice Tours, With Application to Exploring Classification Boundaries in High Dimensions

 2023 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Interactive graphics for visually diagnosing forest classifiers in R

 2023 Computational Statistics

Expanding Tidy Data Principles to Facilitate Missing Data Exploration, Visualization and Assessment of Imputations

 2023 Journal of Statistical Software

brolgar: An R package to BRowse Over Longitudinal Data Graphically and Analytically in R

 2022 The R Journal

Commentary on “Visualization in Operations Management Research”: Incorporating Statistical Thinking into Visualization Practices for Decision Making in Operational Management

 2022 INFORMS Journal on Data Science

A Journey from Wild to Textbook Data to Reproducibly Refresh the Wages Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Database

 2022 Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education

Hole or Grain? A Section Pursuit Index for Finding Hidden Structure in Multiple Dimensions

 2022 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

The state‐of‐the‐art on tours for dynamic visualization of high‐dimensional data

 2022 WIREs Computational Statistics

Casting multiple shadows: interactive data visualisation with tours and embeddings

 2022 Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation

Burning Sage: Reversing the Curse of Dimensionality in the Visualization of High-Dimensional Data

 2022 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Visualizing Probability Distributions Across Bivariate Cyclic Temporal Granularities

 2022 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

NanoMethViz: An R/Bioconductor package for visualizing long-read methylation data

 2021 PLOS Computational Biology

A Projection Pursuit Forest Algorithm for Supervised Classification

 2021 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

ASAS-NANP SYMPOSIUM: prospects for interactive and dynamic graphics in the era of data-rich animal science1

 2021 Journal of Animal Science

NanoMethViz: an R/Bioconductor package for visualizing long-read methylation data

 2021 NA

A Study on Student Performance, Engagement, and Experience With Kaggle InClass data Challenges

 2021 Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education

Conversations in Time: Interactive Visualization to Explore Structured Temporal Data

 2021 The R Journal

Editorial

 2021 R Journal

Visual Diagnostics for Constrained Optimisation with Application to Guided Tours

 2021 The R Journal

Visual Diagnostics for Constrained Optimisation with Application to Guided Tours

 2021 The R Journal

bigPint: A Bioconductor visualization package that makes big data pint-sized

 2020 PLOS Computational Biology

spinifex: An R Package for Creating a Manual Tour of Low-dimensional Projections of Multivariate Data

 2020 The R Journal

The 2013 Data Expo of the American Statistical Association

 2019 Computational Statistics

Connecting R with D3 for dynamic graphics, to explore multivariate data with tours

 2019 The R Journal

Plyranges: A grammar of genomic data transformation

 2019 Genome Biology

plyranges: A grammar of genomic data transformation

 2018 NA

Dynamical projections for the visualization of PDFSense data

 2018 European Physical Journal C

Measuring Lineup Difficulty By Matching Distance Metrics With Subject Choices in Crowd-Sourced Data

 2018 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Congruent biogeographical disjunctions at a continent-wide scale: Quantifying and clarifying the role of biogeographic barriers in the Australian tropics

 2017 PLoS ONE

Forwards column

 2017 R Journal

Model Choice and Diagnostics for Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using Statistics on Street Corners

 2017 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

The twentieth-century computer graphics revolution in statistics

 2017 Visible Numbers: Essays on the History of Statistical Graphics

Data Visualization and Statistical Graphics in Big Data Analysis

 2016 Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application

Enabling Interactivity on Displays of Multivariate Time Series and Longitudinal Data

 2016 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Escape from Boxland

 2016 The R Journal

Authors’ response to discussants

 2015 Statistical Analysis and Data Mining

Does host-plant diversity explain species richness in insects? A test using Coccidae (Hemiptera)

 2015 Ecological Entomology

Using visual statistical inference to better understand random class separations in high dimension, low sample size data

 2015 Computational Statistics

Visualizing communication patterns at DinoFun World

 2015 2015 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, VAST 2015 - Proceedings

Visualizing statistical models: Removing the blindfold

 2015 Statistical Analysis and Data Mining

Visually exploring missing values in multivariable data using a graphical user interface

 2015 Journal of Statistical Software

Four papers on contemporary software design strategies for statistical methodologists

 2014 Statistical Science

Identification of candidate genes involved in early iron deficiency chlorosis signaling in soybean (Glycine max) roots and leaves

 2014 BMC Genomics

Replication protein A subunit 3 and the iron efficiency response in soybean

 2014 Plant, Cell and Environment

The 2011 data Expo of the American Statistical Association

 2014 Computational Statistics

An algorithm for deciding the number of clusters and validation using simulated data with application to exploring crop population structure

 2013 Annals of Applied Statistics

Gradient-based habitat affinities predict species vulnerability to drought

 2013 Ecology

HIV dynamics impacting the efficacy of HIV/AIDS treatments

 2013 Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics

In tennis, do smashes win matches?

 2013 Significance

Let graphics tell the story-Datasets in R

 2013 R Journal

PPtree: Projection pursuit classification tree

 2013 Electronic Journal of Statistics

The generalized pairs plot

 2013 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Validation of visual statistical inference, applied to linear models

 2013 Journal of the American Statistical Association

BirdsEyeView (BEV): graphical overviews of experimental data.

 2012 BMC bioinformatics

Glyph-maps for visually exploring temporal patterns in climate data and models

 2012 Environmetrics

Graphical tests for power comparison of competing designs

 2012 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

ggbio: an R package for extending the grammar of graphics for genomic data

 2012 Genome biology

tourrGui: A gWidgets GUI for the tour to explore high-dimensional data using low-dimensional projections

 2012 Journal of Statistical Software

Delayed, Canceled, on Time, Boarding… Flying in the USA

 2011 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

PKgraph: An R package for graphically diagnosing population pharmacokinetic models

 2011 Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Population structure and linkage disequilibrium in oat (Avena sativa L.): Implications for genome-wide association studies

 2011 Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Tips for presenting your work

 2011 R Journal

Tourr: An R package for exploring multivariate data with projections

 2011 Journal of Statistical Software

A projection pursuit index for large p small n data

 2010 Statistics and Computing

Editorial: Publishing animations, 3D visualizations, and movies in JCGS

 2010 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Glaciers melt as mountains warm: A graphical case study

 2010 Computational Statistics

Graphical inference for infovis

 2010 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Extending the GGobi pipeline from R : RRapid prototyping of interactive visualizations

 2009 Computational Statistics

Incorporating exploratory methods using dynamic graphics into multivariate statistics classes: Curriculum development

 2009 Quality Research in Literacy and Science Education: International Perspectives and Gold Standards

Statistical inference for exploratory data analysis and model diagnostics

 2009 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

The plumbing of interactive graphics

 2009 Computational Statistics

Comment

 2008 Technometrics

Explorase: Multivariate exploratory analysis and visualization for systems biology

 2008 Journal of Statistical Software

Visual methods for examining SVM classifiers

 2008 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

exploRase: Exploratory data analysis of systems biology data

 2006 Proceedings - Fourth International Conference on Coordinated and Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization, CMV 2006

BarleyBase - An expression profiling database for plant genomics

 2005 Nucleic Acids Research

Limn matrix: A tool for visualizing large, distributed, high-dimension data sets

 2005 18th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering 2005, CAINE 2005

Projection pursuit for exploratory supervised classification

 2005 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Computational Methods for High-Dimensional Rotations in Data Visualization

 2004 Handbook of Statistics

A Projection Pursuit Method on the Multidimensional Squared Contingency Table

 2003 Computational Statistics

GGobi: Evolving from XGobi into an extensible framework for interactive data visualization

 2003 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

High Dimensional System Design using Genetic Algorithms & Visualization

 2003 Proceedings of the American Control Conference

MetNet: Software to build and model the biogenetic lattice of Arabidopsis

 2003 Comparative and Functional Genomics

Towards simple, easy-to-understand, yet accurate classifiers

 2003 Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Visualising high-dimensional data in time and space: Ideas from the Orca project

 2002 Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems

Gaining insights into support vector machine pattern classifiers using projection-based tour methods

 2001 Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Visualizing membership in multiple clusters after fuzzy c-means clustering

 2001 Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Interactive visualization of hierarchical clusters using MDS and MST

 2000 Metrika

Linking ArcView™ and XGobi: Insight behind the Front End

 2000 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Orca: A visualization toolkit for high-dimensional data

 2000 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Visual data mining in atmospheric science data

 2000 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Visualization and case reduction in multivariate data clustering

 2000 Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Visualization of data

 2000 Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Visualization of stable manifolds and multidimensional surfaces in the analysis of power system dynamics

 2000 Journal of Nonlinear Science

Benefits of statistical visualization in an immersive environment

 1999 Proceedings - Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium

XGobi vs the C2: Results of an experiment comparing data visualization in a 3-D immersive virtual reality environment with a 2-D workstation display

 1999 Computational Statistics

Exploring environmental data in a highly immersive virtual reality environment

 1998 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

XGobi: Interactive dynamic data visualization in the X window system

 1998 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Binning of Kernel-based projection pursuit indices in XGobi

 1997 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Calibrate your eyes to recognize high-dimensional shapes from their low-dimensional projections

 1997 Journal of Statistical Software

Dynamic graphics in a GIS: More examples using linked software

 1997 Computers and Geosciences

Manual controls for high-dimensional data projections

 1997 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Dynamic graphics in a GIS: Exploring and analyzing multivariate spatial data using linked software

 1996 Computational Statistics

Linked ArcView 2.1 and XGobi environment - GIS, dynamic statistical graphics, and spatial data

 1996 Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Using Graphics and Simulation to Teach Statistical Concepts

 1996 American Statistician

Grand tour and projection pursuit

 1995 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Pojection pursuit indexes based on orthonormal function expansions

 1993 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

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Books

  • Cook, D. and Laa, U. (2024) Interactively exploring high-dimensional data and models in R, CRC Press.
  • Cook, D., and Swayne, D. (with contributions from Buja, A., Temple Lang, D., Hofmann, H., Wickham, H. and Lawrence, M.) (2007). Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis with examples using R and GGobi, Springer, New York. With additional data, R code and demo movies at http://www.ggobi.org.

Refereed conference proceedings

Media & videos