Publications

Journal articles

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

title year journal
Effect of Human Factors on Visual Statistical Inference 2025 WIREs Computational Statistics
Interactive graphics for visually diagnosing forest classifiers in R 2025 Computational Statistics
Demonstrating the Capabilities of the lionfish Software for Interactive Visualization of Market Segmentation Partitions 2025 Austrian Journal of Statistics
A Tidy Framework and Infrastructure to Systematically Assemble Spatio-temporal Indexes from Multivariate Data 2025 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Is This Normal? A New Projection Pursuit Index to Assess a Sample Against a Multivariate Null Distribution 2025 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Designing the Australian Cancer Atlas: visualizing geostatistical model uncertainty for multiple audiences 2024 Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
A Plot is Worth a Thousand Tests: Assessing Residual Diagnostics with the Lineup Protocol 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
Exploring local explanations of nonlinear models using animated linear projections 2024 Computational Statistics
cubble: An R Package for Organizing and Wrangling Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Data 2024 Journal of Statistical Software
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
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

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