Teaching resources

University courses

number title location description
ETC3250/5250 Introduction to Machine Learning Monash University Covers the classic methods for dimension reduction, supervised classification and cluster analysis. What is special about this unit is the use ot high-dimensional data visualisation to explain emothds, and to diagnose models.
ETC5521 Diving Deeper into Data Monash University This is an advanced exploratory data analysis unit, that is based on the spirit of Tukey, to discover the unexpected in data. It has a large focus on making effective plots of data, and checking for suprious structure with modern methods of inference for graphics.
ETC5512 Wild-caught data Monash University This class is designed to introduce students to the variety of open source data available, to learn how to extract and tidy the data for analysis, curate new databases, understand the ethics of open data provision and use, and see how these data are used in a sample of case studies.
ETC1010/5510 Introduction to Data Analysis Monash University The goal of this unit is to get students started with data analysis as fast as possible, so that they have a reasonable chance to begin tackling many contemporary and common problems. They learn how to read a variety of data formats, tidy, wrangle and visualise data, handle missing values, and fit basic statistical and computational models.
ETC2420/5242 Statistical Thinking Monash University This unit develops students understanding of probability in order to build skills for conducting statistical inference. It is based on a modern computational approach to statistics, leveraging randomisation methods such as simulation, bootstrap, cross-validation, and permutation. The conceptual framework of hypothesis testing and confidence intervals is taught and the differences between frequentist and Bayesian procedures.
ETX5551 Advanced topics in econometrics and business statistics 1 Monash University Four weeks on high-dimensional data visualisation following materials at https://dicook.github.io/mulgar_book/

Workshops

date title location details
2025-10-24 Publishing your software NUMBAT workshop, SSA SCV 3 hours
2025-09-29 Visualising Uncertainty WOMBAT 2025 3 hours
2025-07-24 SISBID 2015-2025 Module 2: Visualization of Biomedical Big Data Virtual 2.5 days, annually
2025-06-20 Take a data plot and make it better NUMBAT workshop, SSA SCV 3 hours
2024-10-22 Creating effective data plots WOMBAT 2024 3 hours
2024-07-08 Visualising High-dimensional Data with R useR! 2024, Salzburg 3 hours
2024-03-26 Visualising High-dimensional Data with R SSA SCV, online 3 hours
2023-12-02 Creating data plots for effective decision-making using statistical inference with R SSA SCV, online 3 hours
2023-10-19 Creating data plots for effective decision-making using statistical inference with R Montevideo, Uruguay 3 hours
2022-11-28 Visual methods for multivariate data - a journey beyond 3D SASA 2022, George, South Africa 3 hours
2020-06-23 Going beyond 2D and 3D to visualise higher dimensions, for ordination, clustering and other models vISEC 2020 3 hours

And more than 30 workshops across the globe over many years.