Invited talks and seminars

date title location details
2025-04-24 Interactively Visualizing Multivariate Market Segmentation Using the R Package Lionfish Symposium in Memory of Fritz Leisch Invited talk
2025-03-28 Visually exploring high-dimensional market segmentation data DAGStat 2025 Invited talk
2024-11-07 New tools for visualising high-dimensional data using linear projections TDLee Institute, Shanghai, China invited talk
2024-10-27 Interactively exploring market segmentation with high-dimensional visualisation MPSS, Shanghai, China invited talk
2024-03-13 A little history of GGally Online, ggplot2 extenders invited talk
2023-12-12 Visually exploring local explanations to understand complex machine learning models ASC and OZCOTS 2023 contributed
2023-12-07 New tools for visualising high-dimensional data using linear projections IASC ARS 2023 keynote
2023-10-20 How do we know what we don’t know? Montevideo, Uruguay keynote
2022-11-24 Visually exploring local explanations to understand complex machine learning models Stellenbosch U., South Africa invited talk
2022-08-29 Myth busting and apophenia in data visualisation: Is what you see really there? Macquarie U., Australia invited talk
2022-07-20 A showcase of new methods for high dimensional data viewing with linear projections and sections IFCS '22, Porto, Portugal keynote
2021-06-21 Uncertainty in data visualisation through the lens of statistical inference Rostock Retreat on Data Visualization at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research keynote
2021-02-03 In Visualising Data, Who Wins? Gosset lecture, Irish Statistical Association named lecture
2020-07-20 The paradox of the positive: exploratory tools for visualising the individuals in (multivariate) longitudinal data IBC 2020 keynote
2020-06-24 Making inference using data plots, with application to ecological statistics vISEC 2020 keynote
2019-09-18 Statistics on Street Corners CSIRO Data61, Canberra, Australia invited talk
2019-08-20 Building plots to explore data 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia contributed
2019-08-14 Human vs computer: In Visualising Data, Who Wins? DSSV '19, Kyoto, Japan keynote
2019-07-30 Give Your Statistician Colleague Iris Bulbs for Their House Warming! JSM 2019, Denver, Colorado invited talk
2018-10-15 Human vs computer: when visualising data, who wins? Belz Lecture, Statistical Society of Victoria named lecture
2018-09-12 Visualisation of high-dimensional spaces with application to econometric data and models U. Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia invited talk
2018-08-28 Visualisation of high-dimensional particle physics IASCB-ASC 2018, Melbourne, Australia contributed
2018-07-30 EDA: A Historical Perspective and a Path Forward JSM 2018, Vancouver, Canada invited talk
2018-03-07 Myth busting and apophenia in data visualisation: is what you see really there? Ihaka Lecture, University of Auckland, NZ named lecture
2018-02-12 Visualising high-dimensional spaces with application to particle physics models NUS/IMS Workshop and Tutorial on Social Networks, Singapore invited lecture
2018-02-02 To the Tidyverse and Beyond: Challenges for the Future in Data Science RStudio conference, San Diego, CA keynote
2017-11-27 Statistics on Street Corners Biometrics by the Border, Kingscliff, NSW keynote
2017-09-26 Statistics on Street Corners Young Statisticians Conference 2017, Coolangatta, QLD keynote
2017-07-29 A girl geek’s guide to new research on interactive data visualization for statistics with lots of data. JSM '17, Baltimore, MD invited talk
2017-05-19 The Glue that Binds Statistical Inference, Tidy Data, Grammar of Graphics, Visual Inference School of Maths and Stats, U. Sydney, invited talk
2017-05-18 The Glue that Binds Statistical Inference, Tidy Data, Grammar of Graphics, Visual Inference Finance, Actuarial Studies & Statistics, Australian National University, Canberra. invited talk
2017-05-03 Accessing data and developing analysis software, to study game strategies, with examples from tennis and soccer ACEMS Workshop: Maths and Stats for Sports Research, Brisbane, Australia. NA
2016-11-28 Statistics on Street Corners 2016 Joint New Zealand Statistical Association/Operations Research Society of New Zealand Conference, Auckland, New Zealand keynote
2016-11-25 The Role of Open Data, Open Source Software and Data Visualisation in Developing Quantitative Citizenship Auckland Teachers Day, New Zealand invited talk
2016-10-27 Harnessing Crowd-Sourcing to Select Genes based on Effect Size Using Visual Inference Methods Vic Biostat, Melbourne, Australia invited talk
2016-10-20 Taskforce on Women in R Women in Statistics, Charlotte, NC invited talk
2016-10-18 The Role of R and Data Visualisation in Understanding Our World R Ladies, Melbourne, Australia invited talk
2016-05-28 Statistics on Street Corners International Statistics Forum, Beijing, China keynote
2016-05-27 Really? Using the nullabor package to learn if what we see is really there? China-R, Capital of Statistics, Beijing, China invited talk
2016-03-15 Is what you see really there? Combining statistical inference with exploratory data analysis University of Melbourne, Australi invited talk
2016-02-19 Really? Using the nullabor package to learn if what we see is really there? WOMBAT 2016, Melbourne, Australia invited talk
2015-12-08 Is what you see really there? Combining statistical inference with exploratory data analysis Bayes on the Beach, Surfers Paradise, Australia keynote
2015-12-02 Visualisation in Big Data Analysis: Constructing useful plots, using interactivity, incorporating inference Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Applied Statistics Summer Camp, Murramurang, Australia plenary
2015-11-04 Statistical Inference by Crowd-Sourcing Cornell University, Ithaca, NY invited talk
2015-09-24 Is what you see really there? Big Data Visual Analytics '15, Hobart, Australia keynote
2015-07-02 A survey of two decades of efforts to build interactive graphics capacity in R useR! '15. Aalborg, Denmark keynote
2015-06-29 Eye-balling is OK again: Using an eye-tracker to see how people read data plots Data meets Vis: Interactions and Interactivity, Augsburg, Germany invited talk
2015-06-17 Data Visualization and Statistical Graphics in Big Data Analysis Statistical Inference, Learning and Models for Big Data, Boot Camp, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada invited talk
2014-08-03 Harnessing Crowd-Sourcing to Select Genes based on Effect Size Using Visual Inference Methods JSM '14, Boston, MA. invited talk
2014-07-11 Statistical Inference by Crowd-Sourcing ASC, Sydney, Australia invited talk
2014-04-21 Statistical Inference by Crowd-Sourcing Montana State University, Bozeman, MT invited talk
2014-02-18 Statistical Inference by Crowd-Sourcing Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI invited talk
2013-08-04 Big Data and R, Discussant JSM '13, Montreal, Canada invited talk
2013-06-10 Recent Advances in Visualization Techniques NCSES Digital SEQ, Washington, DC invited talk
2012-10-18 Statistical Inference for Data Visualization Carl Morris Honorary Symposium, Washington D. C. keynote
2012-06-19 Every Plot Must Tell a Story useR! 2012, Nashville, TN keynote
2012-05-16 ggbio: Extending the Grammar of Graphics to Genomic Data Interface Between Statistics and Computing Science, Houston, T invited talk
2012-02-20 An Overview of Statistical Inference Dagstuhl Information Visualization, Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning,Dagstuhl, Germany invited talk
2012-02-13 Overview of Biological Visualization ISU BCB Seminar Series, Ames, IA NA
2011-10-20 Show Me the Data Christian Petersen Art Museum, Morrill Hall NA
2011-08-22 Statistical Inference for Visual Methods International Indian Statistical Association, Raleigh, NC invited talk
2011-08-02 Introductory Overview Lecture: Statistical Graphics JSM 2011, Miami, FL invited talk
2011-08-01 Visualizing Climate Change Data JSM 2011, Miami, FL NA
2011-06-03 Exploring Dose Response Data and Repeated Measures Data Using Interactive Graphics SCVMMI, Dubuque, IA invited talk
2011-02-16 Visual communication CEAH Colloquium, Ames, IA invited talk
2010-02-08 Statistical Inference for Visual Methods Iowa State University invited talk
2009-10-15 Statistical Inference for Visual Methods University of Washington, St Louis invited talk
2009-08-18 Using R and GGobi to Enhance the Learning of Multivariate Analysis and Data Mining ISI 2009, Durban, South Africa invited talk
2009-07-15 Exploring Variation in Data with Statistical Graphics Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge, US Census Bureau, Washington DC invited talk
2009-03-27 Exploring Longitudinal Data: A Peek at Workforce Experiences Second Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium, University of Chicago invited talk
2009-02-23 From Restaurants to Climate Change: Using Statistics to Understand Our World Mathematics on the Road Experience, Prairie Lakes AEA invited talk
2009-02-10 Statistical Inference for Visual Methods Houston Chapter of the American Statistical Society invited talk
2008-06-27 Brain Candy: Using Data Graphics to Learn about Variability and Uncertainty in Our World PCST-10 (Public Communication in Science and Technology, Malmo, Sweden invited talk
2008-06-25 Categorical Variable Linking for Exploring Longitudinal Data Data Vis VI, Bremen, Germany invited talk
2008-05-30 Using R and Ggobi for Exploratory Data Analysis Seminar in Statistik, ETH, Zurich invited talk
2008-05-29 Exploring Longitudinal Data: A Look at Workforce Experiences Zurcher Kolloquium, ETH, Zurich invited talk
2008-04-25 An Exploratory Approach to Longitudinal Data Analysis Department of Statistics, University of Bristol, UK invited talk
2008-03-28 An Exploratory Approach to Longitudinal Data Analysis Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK invited talk
2008-03-06 An Exploratory Approach to Longitudinal Data Analysis Department of Statistics, Oxford University, UK invited talk
2008-01-10 Looking at Models in High-Dimensional Data Space Contemporary Frontiers in High-Dimensional Statistical Data Analysis, Cambridge, UK invited talk
2007-08-01 Improving Statistical Posters Introductory Overview Lecture, JSM '07 invited talk
2007-08-01 Exploring models for clustering data JSM '07 invited talk
2006-12-01 An EDA of my CDs University of Auckland, New Zealand invited talk
2006-05-01 An EDA of my CDs University of California, Los Angele invited talk
2005-10-01 Graphics for Multivariate Data Gold Standard(s) for Education conference, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada invited talk
2005-03-01 Exploring Microarray Data with Plots University of Iowa invited talk
2004-07-15 Visualizing Class and Cluster Structure beyond 3D International Federation of Classification Societies annual meeting, Chicago, IL invited talk
2004-04-22 Visual Methods for Data from Two Factor Single-Replicate Gene Expression Studies University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia invited talk
2004-04-19 Visual Methods for Data from Two Factor Single-Replicate Gene Expression Studies Department of Statistics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia invited talk
2004-03-21 CSIRO, Sydney, Australia CSIRO, Sydney, Australia invited talk
2004-03-16 Data through the windshield in p-dimensions Department of Statistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia invited talk
2004-02-27 EDA using Direct Manipulation Graphics Sydney Summer Statistics Workshop, Sydney University, Australia invited talk
2003-09-10 Using Graphics in Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining: An Application of Supervised Classification in Olive Oil Qualit Data Mining and Machine Learning workshop, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Science Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC invited talk
2003-04-10 Some Dynamic Graphical Tools to Assist Analysis of Microarray Data Workshop on Microarrays, Victorian Microarray Technology Consortium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia keynote
2002-12-13 Classification Tours Applied to Microarray Data Department of Statistics, Harvard University invited talk
2002-10-08 Using Multimedia Animation with Real-time Graphic Overlays for Visualizing a Million Cases of Multivariate Data How to Visualize a Million, Augsburg, Germany invited talk
2002-09-12 Visualization of Microarrays Using Tours and Projection Pursuit Cambridge HealthTech Institute Conference, Washington, DC invited talk
2002-07-17 JUnderstanding Support Vector Machine Classifiers using Graphics Current Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics, Crete, Greece invited talk
2002-07-11 Limn: Using Movie Technology to Drive Graphics for Massive Amounts of Data University of Augsburg, Germany invited talk
2002-04-09 Dynamic Graphics for Multivariate Space-Time Data Geology Department, ISU invited talk
2001-12-12 Visual Data Mining of Large, Multivariate Space-Time Data American Geophysical Union San Francisco invited talk
2001-10-01 Visual Data Mining: Interactive Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis Department of Statistics, Macquarie university, Australia invited talk
2001-07-01 Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis} Workshop on Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy, Penn State University, State College, PN invited talk
2001-05-01 Visual Data Mining of Large, Multivariate Space-Time Data Dept of Statistics, University of Western Australia invited talk
2001-01-01 Limn, to present an image or lifelike imitation of; Limit-n, to explore any data set to its limits Workshop on Non-parametric Statistics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX invited talk
2000-11-01 Immersed in Statistics: your worst nightmare or your wildest dream! Da Vinci Colloquium, Dallas, TX colloquium
2000-11-01 Visual Methods for Classification Problem Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX invited talk
2000-07-01 Issues and Approaches for Visualization of Large Multi-Dimensional Data NRCSE/GSP Workshop, Boulder, CO invited talk

And another 30 or so delivered before 2000.