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Professor Dianne Cook
Professor, Professor
Monash University
Di Cook is Professor of Business Analytics in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and Ordinary Member of the R Foundation (elected). Her research is primarily in data visualisation, visualising high-dimensional spaces using tours with projection pursuit, and bridging the gap between statistical inference and exploratory data analysis. She has developed visualisations for virtual environments, used eye-trackers for assessing visual perception. The applications include bioinformatics, ecology and sport.
Research Interests:
data mining
Data Science
data visualisation
exploratory data analysis
multivariate methods
Statistical computing
Qualifications:
BS/Dip Ed (University of New England)
Msc (Rutgers University)
PhD (Rutgers University)
Prizes, awards and special recognition
2019
ACEMS Impact and Engagement Award (Group) was awarded to Farzana Jahan, Kerrie Mengersen, Earl Duncan, Susanna Cramb, Dianne Cook, Stephanie Kobakian, Nicole White. Awarded from the ACEMS.
2018
Impact and Engagement Award was awarded to Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi, Dianne Cook, Priyanga Dilini Talagala, Earo Wang, Lewis Mitchell, Nick Tierney, Rob Hyndman, Thiyanga Talagala. Awarded from the ACEMS.
Two other awardees:
Nick Spierson
Stuart Lee
Publications
Invited talks, refereed proceedings and other conference outputs
Hirsch, M., Cook D., Lajbcygier P., & Hyndman R. J.
(2019). Revealing high-frequency trading provision of liquidity with visualization.
2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management. pp. 157-165.
Cook, D.
(2018). To the Tidyverse and Beyond: Challenges for the Future in Data Science.
RStudio conference.
Tierney, N., McBain M., & Cook D.
(2018). Now you see it? Now you don’t? The role of graphics in identifying MCMC convergence.
ISCB ASC 2018.
Cook, D.
(2018). Myth busting and apophenia in data visualisation: is what you see really there?.
Ihaka Lecture, University of Auckland, NZ.
Journal Articles
Lee, S., Cook D., & Lawrence M.
(2019). Plyranges: A grammar of genomic data transformation.
Genome Biology. 20(1), 4. doi: 10.1186/s13059-018-1597-8
Cook, D., Laa U., & Valencia G.
(2018). Dynamical projections for the visualization of PDFSense data.
The European Physical Journal C. 78(9), doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6205-2
Chowdhury, N. Roy, Cook D., Hofmann H., & Majumder M.
(2018). Measuring Lineup Difficulty By Matching Distance Metrics With Subject Choices in Crowd-Sourced Data.
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 27(1), 132 - 145. doi: 10.1080/10618600.2017.1356323
Publicly available softwares
Tierney, N., Cook D., & Prvan T.
(2019). brolgar: BRowse Over Longitudinal data Graphically and Analytically in R.
Wang, E., Cook D., & Hyndman R. J.
(2018). sugrrants: Supporting Graphs for Analysing Time Series.
Tierney, N., Cook D., McBain M., & Fay C.
(2018). naniar: Data Structures, Summaries, and Visualisations for Missing Data.
Wang, E., Cook D., Hyndman R. J., & O'Hara-Wild M.
(2018). tsibble: Tidy Temporal Data Frames and Tools.
Cook, D., Ebert A., Hofmann H., Hyndman R., Lumley T., Marwick B., et al.
(2017). eechidna: Exploring Election and Census Highly Informative Data Nationally for Australia.