Presentations:
2012Conference (Invited Talk), Interface 2012 (43rd Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Houston, Texas (May 18, 2012): The Anscombe Data Sets: Explained and Expanded.
2011Colloquium, Department of Statistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (November 14, 2011): Statistical Graphics Meet Medicine and Public Health. [41 pages, 7.6MB pdf]
Conference (Invited Talk), 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Miami Beach, Florida (August 3, 2011): Ignoring the Spatial Context in Intro Stats Classes - And Some Simple Graphical Remedies (with Nathan Voge). [31 pages, 3.8MB pdf]
Conference (Invited Talk), Interface 2011 (42nd Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Cary, North Carolina (June 2, 2011): 3-D Stereoscopic Plots: From History to R. [29 pages, 4.2MB pdf]
2010Conference (Contributed Talk), 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (August 5, 2010): Accuracy, Bias, and Notable Observations for Experimental Actigraphy Data. [22 pages, 1.1MB pdf]
Conference (Invited Talk), Interface 2010 (41st Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Seattle, Washington (June 18, 2010): An Object-Oriented Approach in R for the Visualization of Functional Actigraphy Data (with Abbass Sharif). [26 pages, 3.9MB pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), 2010 Intermountain Section Meetings, The Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Logan, Utah (March 26, 2010): The Long Path from Static and Interactive Statistical Graphics to Journal-Quality Graphics, with Examples from the Medical Field. [23 pages, 997K pdf]
Seminar, Statistics Seminar Series, Department of Mathematics, Washington University at St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (March 16, 2010): Interactive Statistical Visualization of Medical Data. [43 pages, 4.1MB pdf]
Seminar, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (March 4, 2010): Interactive Statistical Visualization of Medical Data. [43 pages, 4.1MB pdf]
2009Seminar Series, Departamento de Estatistica, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil (December 4, 2009): Statistical Graphics and Visual Data Mining for Biostatistical Research. [43 pages, 4.1MB pdf]
Workshop (3 Invited Talks), Statistical Graphics for Spatial and Environmental Research: Departamento de Estatistica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil (November 30 - December 2, 2009): (1) Interactive and Dynamic Statistical Graphics - An Overview; [41 pages, 2.3MB pdf] (2) Linked Micromap Plots - In Print and on the Web; [32 pages, 4.8MB pdf] and (3) Interactive and Dynamic Statistical Graphics - Special Applications. [28 pages, 950K pdf]
2008Conference (Invited Talk), International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) 2008: Joint Meeting of 4th World Conference of the IASC and 6th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the IASC on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Yokohama, Japan (December 8, 2008): Recent Advances in Linked Micromap Plots. [28 pages, 8.2MB pdf]
Workshop (Invited Talk), Statistical Computation and Visualization (SCV) 2008, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (December 3, 2008): Statistical Graphics & Visual Data Mining in the Medical Field. [48 pages, 7.8MB pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Denver, Colorado (August 5, 2008): Exploratory Graphics for Functional Actigraphy Data. [19 pages, 1.4MB pdf]
Workshop (Invited Talk), Statistical Graphics: Data and Information Visualization in Today's Multimedia Society, Bremen, Germany (June 26, 2008): Statistical Graphics Visit Biostatistics: Graphical Experiences from a One-Year Visit to the Washington University of St. Louis, MO, Medical School. [38 pages, 5.2MB pdf]
Seminar, Seminar Series, Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (March 11, 2008): Statistical Graphics and Visual Data Mining for Biostatistical Research. [55 pages, 10.2MB pdf]
2007Conference (Contributed Talk), 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Salt Lake City, Utah (August 2, 2007): A Color Image Grand Tour for Exploring Medical Images. [13 pages, 883K pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), Interface 2007 (39th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (May 24, 2007): ``Heated'' 3D Scatterplots for the Simultaneous Display of cgh Array and Gene Expression Data. [29 pages, 3.1MB pdf]
2006Seminar, Statistical Genetics Methods Forum, Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (November 6, 2006): Graphical Methods: From Visual Data Mining to Modern Presentation Graphics. [80 pages, 14.8MB pdf]
Workshop (Invited Talk), Compstat 2006 Satellite Workshop on Data and Information Visualization 2006, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (August 24, 2006): Interactive Linked Micromap Plots for the Display of Geographically Referenced Data. [43 pages, 9.7MB pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Seattle, Washington (August 7, 2006): Changing Answers in Exams - For the Better or for the Worse? [17 pages, 2.0MB pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), Interface 2006 (38th Symposium on the Interface of Statistics, Computing Science, and Applications), Pasadena, California (May 26, 2006): NDVI Data Reduction for a Fuzzy Statistical Evaluation. [25 pages, 1.2MB pdf]
Seminar, AES/CCS/SCS/Statistics Colloquium Series, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (February 24, 2006): Experiences with International Web-based Introductory Long-Distance Statistics Courses. [40 pages, 2.1MB pdf]
2005Conference (Contributed Talk), 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Minneapolis, Minnesota (August 11, 2005): Experiences with International Web-based Introductory Long-Distance Statistics Courses. [19 pages, 316K pdf]
Workshop & Seminar (2 Invited Talks), University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France (June, 2005): (1) Interactive and Dynamic Statistical Graphics - An Overview; [34 pages, 1.3MB pdf] and (2) Interactive Linked Micromap Plots with ``nViZn'', on the Web, and with S-Plus. [49 pages, 7.2MB pdf]
2004Workshops (4 Invited Talks), Modern Statistical Visualization and Related Topics (4): Visualization, Statistical Software and Interactive Graphics, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), Tokyo, Japan, and Okayama Regional Section - The 13th Meeting, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan (December, 2004): (1) Interactive Linked Micromap Plots with nViZn and on the Web; [52 pages, 8.1MB pdf] (2) Interactive and Dynamic Statistical Graphics - An Overview; [34 pages, 1.3MB pdf] (3) Applications of Visual Data Mining; [60 pages, 2.7MB pdf] and (4) On the Spread of the West Nile Virus Across the USA - A Visual Analysis. [29 pages, 9.2MB pdf]
Presidential Address and Seminar, Utah Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Salt Lake City, Utah (October 26, 2004): On the Spread of the West Nile Virus - A Visual Analysis. [28 pages, 4.3MB pdf]
Conference (Roundtable Leader), 2004 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (August 11, 2004): Interactive Linked Micromap Plots. [Handout: 541K pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), 2004 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (August 10, 2004): On the Effect of the Ordering of Questions in Exams - A Visual Analysis. [21 pages, 1.7MB pdf]
Conference (Invited Talk), Interface 2004 (36th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Baltimore, Maryland (May 28, 2004): Visualization, Web-Access, and Simulation of West Nile Virus Data - From the Regional to the National Level. [30 pages, 9.4MB pdf]
2003Conference (Invited Poster), 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), San Francisco, California (August 10, 2003): Visualizing the Spread of West Nile Virus. [1 page, 8.0MB pdf]
2002Workshop (Invited Talk), Spatial Statistics: Integrating Statistics, GIS, and Statistical Graphics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (October 18, 2002): From ArcView/XGobi to R/GGobi: Recent Developments in Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis. [17 pages, 266K pdf] (R commands, TAO data set)
Conference (Invited Talk), COMPSTAT 2002, Berlin, Germany (August 28, 2002): Teaching Statistics with Electronic Textbooks. [22 pages, 4.2MB pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), New York, New York (August 11, 2002): Recent Developments for Interactive Statistical Graphics on the Web using ``nViZn''. [14 pages, 42K pdf]
Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah (May 1, 2002): Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis - Techniques and Examples. [47 pages, 1.8MB pdf]
Conference (Invited Talk), Interface 2002 (34th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Montreal, Quebec, Canada (April 20, 2002): New Applications of the Image Grand Tour. [25 pages, 2.3MB pdf]
2001Conference (Invited Talk), Seventh U.S. Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Santa Fe, New Mexico (October 26, 2001): Visual Data Mining of Remote Sensing Data. [39 pages, 1.7MB pdf]
Seminar, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (September 18, 2001): Visual Data Mining - Techniques and Examples. [51 pages, 2.1MB pdf]
Conference (Invited Talk), The 53rd Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Seoul, Republic of Korea (August 24, 2001): Data Visualization and Exploration via Virtual Reality - An Overview. [25 pages, 749K pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), 2001 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Atlanta, Georgia (August 8, 2001): ``nViZn'' Federal Statistical Data on the Web. [30 pages, 1.9MB pdf]
Seminar, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (July 11, 2001): A Course on ``Web-Based Statistics'' (in German). [html]
Conference (Contributed Talk), Interface '01 (33rd Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Costa Mesa, California (June 16, 2001): A Course on ``Web-Based Statistics''. [html]
Workshop (Invited Talk), Data Viz II Workshop, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (May 24, 2001): First User Experiences with nViZn. [22 pages, 660K pdf]
2000Seminar, Fachbereich Statistik, Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (December 21, 2000): Analyse räumlicher Daten im ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Software Environment (in German). [42 pages, 1.5MB pdf]
Conference (Invited Talk), 2000 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Indianapolis, Indiana (August 17, 2000): Visual Exploration of Satellite Images. [23 pages, 1.1MB pdf]
Seminar, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (July 10, 2000): U.S. Umweltdaten auf dem Web - Statistische Tools und Politik (in German). [29 pages, 1.8MB pdf]
Seminar, Utah Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Logan, Utah (May 17, 2000): Data Visualization and Data Mining. [35 pages, 1.1MB pdf]
Seminar, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Hyattsville, Maryland (May 13, 2000): The ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Environment: Spatial Data Analysis in a Linked Software Environment.
Seminar, Department of Computer Science, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi (May 1, 2000): Visual Data Mining and the MiniCAVE. [31 pages, 3.2MB pdf]
Conference (Invited Talk), The Association of American Geographers (AAG) 96th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 5, 2000): The ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Environment: Spatial Data Analysis in a Linked Software Environment. [22 pages, 390K pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), The Association of American Geographers (AAG) 96th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 5, 2000): HAPs, Micromaps and GPL - Visualization of Geographically Referenced Statistical Summaries on the World Wide Web. [29 pages, 1.8MB pdf]
1999Conference (Roundtable Leader), 1999 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Baltimore, Maryland (August 10, 1999): GIS and Statistics - Present and Future. [Handout: 83K pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), 1999 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Baltimore, Maryland (August 10, 1999): Interactive Tables and Maps - A Glance at EPA's Cumulative Exposure Web Page. [31 pages, 1.8MB pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), Interface '99 (31st Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Schaumburg, Illinois (June 12, 1999): Visual Data Mining of Brain Cells. [16 pages, 669K pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), 3. International Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, Stuttgart, Germany (May 11, 1999): The MiniCAVE - A Voice-Controlled IPT Environment. [27 pages, 661K pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), 1999 ACSM-WFPS Conference, Portland, Oregon (March 17, 1999): HAPs, Micromaps and GPL - Visualization of Geographically Referenced Statistical Summaries on the World Wide Web. [29 pages, 1.8MB pdf]
Seminar, CSI/Statistics Colloquium Series, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (March 12, 1999): HAPs, Micromaps and GPL - Visualization of Geographically Referenced Statistical Summaries on the World Wide Web. [29 pages, 1.8MB pdf]
Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University, Logan, Utah (January 21, 1999): Dynamic and Interactive Statistical Graphics for Spatially Referenced Data. [34 pages, 500K pdf]
1998Seminar, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (December 16, 1998): Current Internet Technology and Statistics - Blessing or Curse? (in German).
Seminar, Washington Statistical Society, Statistical Computing Section, Washington, D.C. (October 6, 1998): Current Internet Technology and Statistics - Blessing or Curse?. [Update with 20% more links]
Seminar, US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia (September 10, 1998): WWW-based Access and Visualization of Hazardous Air Pollutants.
Conference (Contributed Talk), 1998 GIS in Public Health 3rd National Conference, San Diego, California (August 20, 1998): WWW-based Access and Visualization of Hazardous Air Pollutants. [17 pages, 821K pdf]
Conference (Contributed Talk), 1998 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Dallas, Texas (August 10, 1998): XGobi and XploRe Meet ViRGIS.
Workshop (Invited Talk), Data Visualization in Statistics, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey (July 8, 1998): The MiniCAVE Environment (with E. J. Wegman). [37 pages, 863K pdf]
Conference (Invited Talk), Interface '98 (30th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Minneapolis, Minnesota (May 16, 1998): Current Internet Technology and Statistics - Blessing or Curse?
Conference (Contributed Talk), Interface '98 (30th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Minneapolis, Minnesota (May 16, 1998): Exploratory Statistical Graphics for an Initial Motion Control Experiment. [23 pages, 930K pdf] [Project Home Page].
Seminar, Washington Statistical Society, Statistical Computing Section, Washington, D.C. (March 4, 1998): Applications of Dynamic Statistical Graphics within a GIS and a VR Environment.
Seminar, CSI/Statistics Colloquium Series, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (February 6, 1998): Visualization of High-dimensional Biomedical Data (with G. Michaels and P. Vandersluis).
Seminar, GeneData AG, Basel, Switzerland (January 5, 1998): Highly Interactive Dynamic Statistical Graphics.
1997Seminar, Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (December 4, 1997): The ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Environment: Spatial Data Analysis in a Linked Software Environment.
Seminar, CSI/Statistics Colloquium Series, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (October 31, 1997): Dynamic Statistical Graphics in Iowa State's Highly Immersive C2 Virtual Reality Environment.
Conference (Contributed Talk), Third U.S. Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Fairfax, Virginia (October 23, 1997): Exploration of Satellite Images in the Dynamically Linked ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Environment.
Workshop on Scientific Visualization and Virtual Reality, Third U.S. Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Fairfax, Virginia (October 20, 1997): Demonstration of the ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Environment.
Conference (Contributed Talk), 1997 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Anaheim, California (August 11, 1997): The ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Link: Technical Details and Applications for Spatial Data Analysis.
Conference (Invited Talk), Interface '97 (29th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Houston, Texas (May 17, 1997): Spatial Data Analysis in the Dynamically Linked ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Environment.
Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York (April 4, 1997): Dynamic Graphics in a GIS - Concepts, Computational Methods, and Applications.
Conference (Contributed Talk), Second World Conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), Pasadena, California (February 20, 1997): Dynamic Graphics in a GIS: A Bidirectional Link between ArcView 2.1 and XGobi - An Update.
Conference (Contributed Talk), Second World Conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), Pasadena, California (February 20, 1997): Dynamic Statistical Graphics in the C2 Virtual Reality Environment.
Seminar, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (January 8, 1997): Dynamic Statistical Graphics in the C2 Virtual Reality Environment (in German).
1996Seminar, Fachbereich Statistik, Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (December 17, 1996): Dynamic Statistical Graphics in the C2 Virtual Reality Environment (in German).
Conference (Contributed Talk), Fourth ACM Workshop on Advances in Geogrphic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'96), Rockville, Maryland (November 16, 1996): The Linked ArcView 2.1 and XGobi Environment - GIS, Dynamic Statistical Graphics, and Spatial Data.
Seminar, Center for Computational Statistics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (November 14, 1996): The Linked ArcView 2.1 and XGobi Environment - GIS, Dynamic Statistical Graphics, and Spatial Data.
Seminar, GIS Seminar Series, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (November 12, 1996): The Linked ArcView 2.1 and XGobi Environment - GIS, Dynamic Statistical Graphics, and Spatial Data.
Workshop, GIS Seminar Series, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (November 12, 1996): Spatial Data Analysis in the Linked ArcView 2.1 and XGobi Environment.
Conference (Roundtable Leader), 1996 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), Chicago, Illinois (August 7, 1996): How Can Virtual Reality be Useful in Statistics?
Conference (Contributed Talk), Interface '96 (28th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Sydney, Australia (July 9, 1996): Implementation Issues of Variogram Cloud Plots and Spatially Lagged Scatterplots in the Linked ArcView 2.1 and XGobi Environment.
Workshop (Invited Talk), Dynamic Statistical Graphics Workshop, Sydney, Australia (July 7, 1996): Dynamic Statistical Graphics in Highly Immersive Environments. [18 pages, 2.0MB pdf]
Seminar, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey (March 7, 1996): Dynamic Graphics for Spatial Data: A Bidirectional Link between ArcView 2.1 and XGobi.
1995Seminar, Fachbereich Statistik, Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (December 19, 1995): Graphische Analyse von räumlichen Daten (in German).
Seminar, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany (December 11, 1995): Eine Schnittstelle für ArcView 2.1 und XGobi zur dynamischen, graphischen Analyse von räumlich referenzierten Daten (in German).
Seminar, Statistical Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (September 11, 1995): A Link between ArcView 2.0 and XGobi: A Tool for Dynamic Graphical Analysis of Spatially Referenced Data (with J. Majure).
Conference (Contributed Talk), Interface '95 (27th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (June 23, 1995): Dynamic Graphics in a GIS: A Bidirectional Link between ArcView 2.0 and XGobi.
1994Seminar, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (December 20, 1994): Geographical Information Systems and Interactive Dynamic Graphics Programs: A Link between ARC/INFO and XGobi.
Conference (Contributed Talk), Interface '94 (26th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (June 18, 1994): Dynamic Graphics in a GIS: A Link between ARC/INFO and XGobi.
1993Conference (Contributed Talk), 1993 Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA), San Francisco, California (August 10, 1993): Three-Dimensional Statistical Graphics based on Interactively Animated Anaglyphs. [11 pages, 66K pdf]
1992Conference (Contributed Poster), Statistische Woche, Braunschweig, Germany (September 1992): Software Presentation of the Program Anaglyphen 3D (with Franz Hering).
Conference (Contributed Talk), 16th Annual Conference of the "Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V." (GfKL), Dortmund, Germany (April 1992): Anaglyphen 3D - A Program for the Interactive Representation of Three-Dimensional Perspective Plots of Statistical Data. [12 pages, 68K pdf]