Dianne Helen Cook is an Australian statistician, the editor of the ''

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics The ''Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the American Statistical Association. Established in 1992, the journal covers the use of computat ...

'', and an expert on the visualization of high-dimensional data. She is Professor of Business Analytics in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...

and professor emeritus of statistics at

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the n ...

. The

emeritus ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

status was chosen so that she could continue to supervise graduate students at Iowa State after moving to Australia.Visiphilia: The love of plotting data
(shared blog with Heike Hofmann)

Education and early life

Dianne Helen Cook grew up in

Wauchope, New South Wales Wauchope () is a town in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is within the boundaries of the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council area. Wauchope is inland on the Hastings River and the Oxley Highway west of Port Macquar ...

as an athletic farm girl, the first woman to play on her local (men's)

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

team. She studied statistics at

University of New England (Australia) The University of New England (UNE) is a public university in Australia with approximately 22,500 higher education students. Its original and main campus is located in the city of Armidale in northern central New South Wales. UNE was the first ...

, where she earned a

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and Dip.Ed. in 1982. She received her MS in 1990 and her

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in 1993 from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

; her dissertation, supervised jointly by Andreas Buja and Javier Cabrera, was ''Grand Tour and Projection Pursuit''.

Career and research

Cook joined the

faculty in 1993, and remained there until her move to

in 2015. At Iowa State, her students have included

Hadley Wickham Hadley Alexander Wickham (born 14 October 1979) is a statistician from New Zealand and Chief Scientist at Posit, PBC (former RStudio Inc.) and an adjunct Professor of statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice Un ...

and

Yihui Xie Yihui Xie ( zh, 谢益辉) is a Chinese statistician, data scientist and software engineer for RStudio. He is the principal author of the open-source software package Knitr for data analysis in the R (programming language), R programming language, ...

. She is one of the developers of

GGobi GGobi is a free statistical software tool for interactive data visualization. GGobi allows extensive exploration of the data with Interactive dynamic graphics. It is also a tool for looking at multivariate data. R can be used in sync with G ...

, and with Deborah F. Swayne, she is the author of ''Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: With R and GGobi'' (Springer, 2007). She is a

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Dianne Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian statisticians Women statisticians University of New England (Australia) alumni Rutgers University alumni R (programming language) people Iowa State University faculty Monash University faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association