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Creating Effective Graphics

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How do we create effective charts and graphs for scientific presentations? What are the elements of effective charts and graphics? Which charts should be used for different…
Nov 13, 2024
Susan Vanderplas

 

Incorrect statistical reasoning in Guyll et al. leads to biased claims about strength of forensic evidence

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[1] M. Rosenblum, E. T. Chin, E. L. Ogburn, et al. “Incorrect statistical reasoning in Guyll et al. leads to biased claims about strength of forensic evidence”. In: Proceedin…
Nov 5, 2024
Michael Rosenblum, Elizabeth T. Chin, Elizabeth L. Ogburn, Akihiko Nishimura, Daniel Westreich, Abhirup Datta, Susan Vanderplas, Maria Cuellar, William C. Thompson

 

Web Scraping Olympics: Python

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A comparison of Python, Julia, and R for web-scraping Olympic athlete names, events, and birthdays. I represented python. See the full narrative here…
Nov 2, 2024
Susan Vanderplas

A Plot is Worth a Thousand Tests: Assessing Residual Diagnostics with the Lineup Protocol

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Regression experts consistently recommend plotting residuals for model diagnosis, despite the availability of many numerical hypothesis test procedures designed to use…
Aug 7, 2024
Weihao (Patrick) Li, Di Cook, Emi Tanaka, Klaus Ackermann, Susan Vanderplas

Escaping Flatland: Graphics, Dimensionality, and Human Perception

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Almost 40 years ago, Cleveland & McGill published the first of 3 papers detailing experiments assessing the accuracy of numerical perception using different types of charts.…
Jul 1, 2024
Susan Vanderplas

Escaping Flatland: Graphics, Dimensionality, andHuman Perception

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[1] S. Vanderplas, E. Blankenship, and T. Wiederich. “Escaping Flatland: Graphics, Dimensionality, and~Human Perception”. In: Human Interface and the Management of Information…
Jul 1, 2024
Susan Vanderplas, Erin Blankenship, Tyler Wiederich

Creating Good Graphics

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Let’s talk about how to create good charts and graphics!
Jun 26, 2024
Susan Vanderplas

Hidden Multiple Comparisons Increase Forensic Error Rates

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[1] S. Vanderplas, A. Carriquiry, and H. Hofmann. “Hidden Multiple Comparisons Increase Forensic Error Rates”. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121.25…
Jun 10, 2024
Susan Vanderplas, Alicia Carriquiry, Heike Hofmann

 

A Plot Is Worth a Thousand Tests: Assessing Residual Diagnostics with the Lineup Protocol

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[1] W. Li, D. Cook, E. Tanaka, et al. “A Plot Is Worth a Thousand Tests: Assessing Residual Diagnostics with the Lineup Protocol”. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical…
May 22, 2024
Weihao Li, Dianne Cook, Emi Tanaka, Susan VanderPlas

Demonstrative Evidence and the Use of Algorithms in Jury Trials

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[1] R. Rogers and S. VanderPlas. “Demonstrative Evidence and the Use of Algorithms in Jury Trials”. In: Journal of Data Science 22.2 (May. 02, 2024), pp. 314-332. DOI: 10.633…
May 2, 2024
Rachel Rogers, Susan VanderPlas

 

Evaluating Perceptual Judgements on 3D Printed Bar Charts

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[1] T. Wiederich and S. Vanderplas. “Evaluating Perceptual Judgements on 3D Printed Bar Charts”. In: Journal of Data Science 22.2 (Apr. 24, 2024), pp. 176-190. ISSN…
Apr 24, 2024
Tyler Wiederich, Susan Vanderplas

 

Graphical Perception in a Pandemic: Log Scales, Exponential Growth, and the Importance of User Testing

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During COVID, people all over the world were consulting time-series charts on a daily basis and using these charts to make decisions. Discussions broke out among data…
Mar 29, 2024
Susan Vanderplas, Emily Robinson, Reka Howard

Building a CV/Blog Automatically

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This week will be the second of a 2-part workshop. On Feb 15, we talked about how to make a CV with R and a google spreadsheet (and why you might want to do so). This week…
Mar 7, 2024
Susan Vanderplas

Building a CV with R and Google Sheets

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This week will be the first of a 2-part workshop. First, we’ll talk about how to make a CV with R and a google spreadsheet (and why you might want to do so). On March 7…
Feb 15, 2024
Susan Vanderplas

 

Statistical Computing Using R and Python

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[1] S. Vanderplas. Statistical Computing Using R and Python. Feb. 14, 2024. URL: https://srvanderplas.github.io/stat-computing-r-python/.
Feb 14, 2024
Susan Vanderplas

Using Git Submodules

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Sometimes, we want to have git repositories that are nested within each other, but git doesn’t allow us to do that. Instead, there are git submodules! I’ll talk about how…
Feb 8, 2024
Susan Vanderplas

 

One Model That Fits Them All: Psychometrics With Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Models

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[1] W. Ju, S. R. VanderPlas, and H. Hofmann. “One Model That Fits Them All: Psychometrics With Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Models”. In: Electronic Imaging 36 (Jan. 24…
Jan 24, 2024
Wangqian Ju, Susan R. VanderPlas, Heike Hofmann

Cultivating Insights: Harnessing the Power of Data Visualization in Agriculture

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Data visualization is an important tool for examining the results of on-farm experiments before, during, and after formal modeling. This talk shows the different types of…
Jan 9, 2024
Susan Vanderplas

 

Misuse of statistical method results in highly biased interpretation of forensic evidence in Guyll et al. 2023

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[1] M. Rosenblum, E. T. Chin, E. L. Ogburn, et al. “Misuse of statistical method results in highly biased interpretation of forensic evidence in Guyll et al. (2023)”. In: Law…
Jan 9, 2024
Michael Rosenblum, Elizabeth T Chin, Elizabeth L Ogburn, Akihiko Nishimura, Daniel Westreich, Abhirup Datta, Susan Vanderplas, Maria Cuellar, William C Thompson

Multimodal User Testing: Producing comprehensive, task-focused guidelines for chart design

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, Australian Statistical Conference
Event Type: Conference
Location: Wollongong, NSW, AUS
Dec 14, 2023
Susan Vanderplas, Reka Howard, Emily Robinson

How Do You Define a Circle? Perception and Computer Vision Diagnostics

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Neural Networks are very complicated and very useful models for image recognition, but they are generally used to recognize very complex and multifaceted stimuli, like cars…
Dec 6, 2023
Susan Vanderplas, Muxin Hua

Measuring Your Tools, for Science!

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This project is a bit of informal data collection meant to help me calibrate the likelihood of a random tool matching a wire in evidence of a given gauge/diameter.
Nov 18, 2023
Susan Vanderplas

Graphics and Cognition: How Do We Perceive Charts?

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In this talk, I walk through a few cognitive components that affect how we use charts: perception, attention, and memory, with a focus on the process of understanding and…
Oct 12, 2023
Susan Vanderplas

Eye Fitting Straight Lines in the Modern Era

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[1] E. A. Robinson, R. Howard, and S. VanderPlas. “Eye Fitting Straight Lines in the Modern Era”. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 32.4 (Oct. 02, 2023)…
Oct 2, 2023
Emily A. Robinson, Reka Howard, Susan VanderPlas

Testing Statistical Graphics

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Section on Statistical Graphics, JSM
Event Type: Conference
Location: Toronto, ON, CA
Aug 8, 2023
Susan Vanderplas

What Makes a Good Graph? Graphical Testing and Principles for Graph Design

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University of Nebraska, Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior
Event Type: Department Seminar
Location: Lincoln, NE
Mar 27, 2023
Susan Vanderplas

Penguins Go Parallel: a grammar of graphics framework for generalized parallel coordinate plots

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[1] S. VanderPlas, Y. Ge, A. Unwin, et al. “Penguins Go Parallel: a grammar of graphics framework for generalized parallel coordinate plots”. In: Journal of Computational…
Mar 1, 2023
Susan VanderPlas, Yawei Ge, Antony Unwin, Heike Hofmann

 

Inconclusive Conclusions: Biases and Consequences

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Forensic pattern evidence is often evaluated using categorical scales, such as identification (evidence is from the same source), inconclusive, or elimination (evidence is…
Feb 15, 2023
Susan Vanderplas

A Study in Reproducibility: The Congruent Matching Cells Algorithm and cmcR package

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[1] J. Zemmels, S. Vanderplas, and H. Hofmann. “A Study in Reproducibility: The Congruent Matching Cells Algorithm and cmcR package”. In: R Journal (4 Feb. 09, 2023)…
Feb 9, 2023
Joseph Zemmels, Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

You Draw It: Implementation of visually fitted trends with r2d3

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[1] E. Robinson, R. Howard, and S. VanderPlas. “You Draw It: Implementation of visually fitted trends with r2d3”. In: Journal of Data Science (Jan. 2023). ISSN: 1680-743X.…
Jan 1, 2023
Emily Robinson, Reka Howard, Susan VanderPlas

 

Exploring Rural Shrink Smart Through Guided Discovery Dashboards

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[1] D. Bradford and S. VanderPlas. “Exploring Rural Shrink Smart Through Guided Discovery Dashboards”. In: Journal of Data Science (Dec. 2022), pp. 1-12. ISSN: 1680-743X.…
Dec 1, 2022
Denise Bradford, Susan VanderPlas

Visual Narratives of the Covid-19 pandemic

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[1] A. Wilhelm and S. VanderPlas. “Visual Narratives of the Covid-19 pandemic”. In: Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation 2.7 (Nov. 2022), p. 84–113. DOI: 10…
Nov 1, 2022
Adalbert Wilhelm, Susan VanderPlas

Reproducible Science: Statistics, Forensics, and the Law

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In science, we strive to design and create reproducible experiments that can be replicated by other researchers. We also usually require that scientists use good…
Oct 5, 2022
Susan Vanderplas

How to make good charts

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Data visualizations are an important component of scientific research and communication. We use charts to explore our data before we know how to model it, and we use charts…
Sep 22, 2022
Susan Vanderplas

Local Population Footwear Class Characteristics - An End-to-End Pipeline for Automatic Data Acquisition and Analysis

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In this workshop we demonstrate the use of a footwear scanner which can collect data about population-level tread characteristics in a local area. We discuss the scanner’s…
Aug 3, 2022
Susan Vanderplas, Rick Stone

 

From Scans to Scores

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3D microscopy has opened up ways to assess similarity between different sources of evidence. Algorithms are used to turn a pair of scans into a number. But what can these…
Aug 2, 2022
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

Pandemics, Graphics, and Perception of Log Scales

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In 2020, there was suddenly worldwide interest in graphics on a level we don’t normally see - people were checking news sites daily looking for graphs, maps, and any…
Apr 8, 2022
Susan Vanderplas, Emily Robinson, Reka Howard

Automatic Acquisition of Footwear Class Characteristics

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, Center for Statistical Applications in Forensic Evidence
Event Type: Webinar
Location: Online
Mar 24, 2022
Susan Vanderplas, Rick Stone

Treatment of inconclusives in the AFTE range of conclusions

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[1] H. Hofmann, A. Carriquiry, and S. Vanderplas. “Treatment of inconclusives in the AFTE range of conclusions”. In: Law, Probability and Risk 19.3-4 (May. 05, 2021)…
May 5, 2021
Heike Hofmann, Alicia Carriquiry, Susan Vanderplas

Comparison of three similarity scores for bullet LEA matching

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[1] S. Vanderplas, M. Nally, T. Klep, et al. “Comparison of three similarity scores for bullet LEA matching”. In: Forensic Science International 308 (Mar. 01, 2020)…
Mar 1, 2020
Susan Vanderplas, Melissa Nally, Tylor Klep, Cristina Cadevall, Heike Hofmann

Clusters Beat Trend!? Testing Feature Hierarchy in Statistical Graphics

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[1] S. Vanderplas and H. Hofmann. “Clusters Beat Trend!? Testing Feature Hierarchy in Statistical Graphics”. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 26.2…
Apr 24, 2017
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

Animint: Interactive, Web-Ready Graphics with R

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, Great Plains R User Group
Event Type: User Group
Location: Sioux Center, IA
May 30, 2014
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

 

Hidden multiple comparisons increase forensic error rates

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[1] S. Vanderplas, A. Carriquiry, and H. Hofmann. “Hidden multiple comparisons increase forensic error rates”. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121.25 ().…
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Susan Vanderplas, Alicia Carriquiry, Heike Hofmann

Statistical significance calculations for scenarios in visual inference

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[1] S. Vanderplas, C. Röttger, D. Cook, et al. “Statistical significance calculations for scenarios in visual inference”. In: Stat 10.1 (Dec. 01, 2021), p. e337. DOI: https:…
Dec 1, 2021
Susan Vanderplas, Christian Röttger, Dianne Cook, Heike Hofmann

Designing Graphics Requires Useful Experimental Testing Frameworks and Graphics Derived From Empirical Results

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[1] S. VanderPlas. “Designing Graphics Requires Useful Experimental Testing Frameworks and Graphics Derived From Empirical Results”. In: Harvard Data Science Review 3.3…
Jul 30, 2021
Susan VanderPlas

Exploring Rural Quality of Life Using Data Science and Public Data

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In many situations, subjective assessments and objective data capture similar (but not identical) aspects of the same underlying phenomenon. In this talk, I’ll discuss how…
Apr 9, 2021
Susan Vanderplas, Denise Bradford

Visual Statistics: Communication and Graphical Testing

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Animal Science
Event Type: Department Seminar
Location: Lincoln, NE
Mar 16, 2021
Susan Vanderplas

Welcome to Forensic Statistics

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, Data Mishaps Night
Event Type: Meetup
Location: Online
Feb 5, 2021
Susan Vanderplas

Perception and Visual Communication in a Global Pandemic

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In the early months of 2020, as the novel coronavirus spread around the globe, we all turned to graphics and data visualizations in order to make sense of the unfolding…
Jul 29, 2020
Susan Vanderplas

Statistical Evaluation of Firearms and Toolmark Evidence

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Statistics
Event Type: Department Seminar
Location: Lincoln, NE
Mar 11, 2020
Susan Vanderplas

Testing Statistical Charts: What Makes a Good Graph?

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[1] S. Vanderplas, D. Cook, and H. Hofmann. “Testing Statistical Charts: What Makes a Good Graph?” In: Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application 7.1 (Mar. 01, 2020)…
Mar 1, 2020
Susan Vanderplas, Dianne Cook, Heike Hofmann

One of these things is not like the others: Visual Statistics and Testing in Statistical Graphics

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South Dakota State University, Data Science Symposium
Event Type: Conference
Location: Brookings, SD
Feb 11, 2020
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

Big Data, Big Experiments, and Big Problems

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If data creates problems, then big data creates even bigger problems. In this talk, I discuss many different ways you can ensure a study fails, and how those decisions are…
Jan 12, 2020
Susan Vanderplas

An introduction to firearms examination for researchers in statistics

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[1] S. Vanderplas, A. Carriquiry, H. Hofmann, et al. “An introduction to firearms examination for researchers in statistics”. In: Handbook of Forensic Statistics. Ed. by…
Jan 1, 2020
Susan Vanderplas, Alicia Carriquiry, Heike Hofmann, James Hamby, Xiao Hui Tai

Statistical Lineups for Bayesians

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Graphics play a crucial role in statistical analysis and data mining. The lineup protocol for experimentally testing graphics has traditionally used p-values to identify…
Jul 31, 2019
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

ggenealogy: An R Package for Visualizing Genealogical Data

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[1] L. Rutter, S. Vanderplas, D. Cook, et al. “ggenealogy: An R Package for Visualizing Genealogical Data”. In: Journal of Statistical Software 89.13 (May. 29, 2019)…
May 29, 2019
Lindsay Rutter, Susan Vanderplas, Dianne Cook, Michelle Graham

Framed! Reproducing and Revisiting 150-Year-Old Charts

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[1] S. Vanderplas, R. C. Goluch, and H. Hofmann. “Framed! Reproducing and Revisiting 150-Year-Old Charts”. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 28.3…
Apr 1, 2019
Susan Vanderplas, Ryan C Goluch, Heike Hofmann

Machine learning in forensic applications

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[1] A. Carriquiry, H. Hofmann, X. H. Tai, et al. “Machine learning in forensic applications”. In: Significance 16.2 (Apr. 01, 2019), pp. 29-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j…
Apr 1, 2019
Alicia Carriquiry, Heike Hofmann, Xiao Hui Tai, Susan Vanderplas

Extending ggplot2 for Linked and Animated Web Graphics

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[1] C. Sievert, S. Vanderplas, J. Cai, et al. “Extending ggplot2 for Linked and Animated Web Graphics”. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 28.2 (Nov. 14…
Nov 14, 2018
Carson Sievert, Susan Vanderplas, Jun Cai, Kevin Ferris, Faizan Uddin Fahad Khan, Toby Dylan Hocking

Framed Charts in the 1870 Statistical Atlas

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Computational Reproducibility is a fundamental aspect of the scientific method. One question that we need to therefore ask ourselves is “how reproducible are our charts?”.…
Aug 1, 2018
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

Clusters Beat Trend!? Testing Feature Hierarchy in Statistical Graphics

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Graphics are very effective for communicating numerical information quickly and efficiently, but many of the design choices we make are based on subjective measures, such as…
May 17, 2018
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

All of This Has Happened Before. All of This Will Happen Again: Data Science

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[1] H. Hofmann and S. Vanderplas. “All of This Has Happened Before. All of This Will Happen Again: Data Science”. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 26.4…
Dec 19, 2017
Heike Hofmann, Susan Vanderplas

 

A Bayesian Approach to Visual Inference

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Graphics play a crucial role in statistical analysis and data mining. The lineup protocol for experimentally testing graphics has traditionally used p-values to identify…
Aug 2, 2017
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

Spatial Reasoning and Data Displays

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[1] S. VanderPlas and H. Hofmann. “Spatial Reasoning and Data Displays”. In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 22.1 (Dec. 31, 2016), pp. 459-468. DOI: …
Dec 31, 2016
Susan VanderPlas, Heike Hofmann

Signs of the Sine Illusion - why we need to care

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[1] S. Vanderplas and H. Hofmann. “Signs of the Sine Illusion - why we need to care”. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 24.4 (Dec. 10, 2015)…
Dec 10, 2015
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

Animint: Interactive Web-Based Animations using Ggplot2’s Grammar of Graphics

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Animint is a high-level modification of the grammar of graphics used in ggplot2 for linked, interactive, animated plots. It builds on top of ggplot2 to create interactive…
Aug 10, 2015
Susan Vanderplas, Toby Hocking

 

Visual Aptitude and Statistical Graphics

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IEEE, InfoVis
Event Type: Conference
Location: Chicago, IL
Aug 10, 2015
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

Do You See What I See? Using Shiny for User Testing

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Section on Statistical Graphics, JSM
Event Type: Conference
Location: Boston, MA
Aug 4, 2014
Susan Vanderplas

The curse of three dimensions: Why your brain is lying to you

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One of the basic principles of visual graphics is that the graphic should accurately reflect the data. Tufte’s lie factor was created with the idea that graphs that do not…
Aug 4, 2014
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

 

Signs of the Sine Illusion – why we need to care

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Section on Statistical Graphics, JSM
Event Type: Conference
Location: Montreal, ON, CA
Aug 7, 2013
Susan Vanderplas, Heike Hofmann

In tennis, do smashes win matches?

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[1] S. Budrus, S. Vanderplas, and D. Cook. “In tennis, do smashes win matches?” In: Significance 10.3 (2013), pp. 35-38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00665.x.
Jan 1, 2013
Sarah Budrus, Susan Vanderplas, Dianne Cook

Detection of gene orthology from gene co-expression and protein interaction networks

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[1] F. Towfic, S. Vanderplas, C. A. Oliver, et al. “Detection of gene orthology from gene co-expression and protein interaction networks”. In: BMC bioinformatics 11.Suppl 3…
Jan 1, 2010
Fadi Towfic, Susan Vanderplas, Casey A Oliver, Oliver Couture, Christopher K Tuggle, M Heather West Greenlee, Vasant Honavar

Near-infrared spectroscopy and cortical responses to speech production

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[1] R. Hull, H. Bortfeld, and S. Koons. “Near-infrared spectroscopy and cortical responses to speech production”. In: The open neuroimaging journal 3 (2009), p. 26. DOI: http…
Jan 1, 2009
Rachel Hull, Heather Bortfeld, Susan Koons
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