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"If you want to understand the connection between important economic quantities that change over time, you need a serious, careful method for connecting your picture with the data you actually observe, and that is what they did." Robert Solow, 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics winner says this about this year's winner. |
VIGRE Statistical Graphics and Computing
Spring 2006 meetings
| Date | Topic/Speaker |
| Jan 24 | Planning Session |
| Jan 31 | Data Expo |
| Feb 7 | ggplots: A new graphics package for R, Hadley Wickham |
| Feb 14 | GGobi bug testing session |
| Feb 21 | Data Expo |
| Mar 7 | GGobi + R = Rggobi2: Slides |
| Apr 4 | Supervised Classification using GGobi: Slides, R code |
Fall 2005 meetings
| Date | Topic/Speaker |
| Aug 26 | Planning session |
| Sep 2 | High-dimensional Games, A Tournament hosted by Di Cook |
| Sep 9 | Graphics: The Ace in the Sleeve of the Statistician, Heike Hofmann |
| Sep 16 | Introduction to the Data Expo Data |
| Sep 23 | Introduction to Mondrian, Heike Hofmann |
| Sep 30 | Visualizing Internet Traffic, Karen Kafadar |
| Oct 10 | Reshaping Data, Hadley Wickham |
| Oct 21 | Data Expo Tasks |
| Oct 28 | Cluster Analysis and its Applications to NRI Data, Jianqing Wang |
| Nov 4 | Operating on Large Data Sets in R |
| Nov 11 | More Data Expo |
| Nov 18 | Data Expo with experts from Meterology |
| Dec 2 | Connecting R and GGobi with RGGobi, Michael Lawrence |
| Dec 9 | Movie event |
Fall 2004 meetings
| Date | Topic/Speaker |
| Sep 7 | What is statistical graphics? Di Cook slides |
| Sep 14 | Biplots & Univariate Linear Models, Heike Hofmann |
| Sep 21 | Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML), Michael Lawrence |
| Sep 28 | marrayVis: Normalization and Visualization of Microarrays, Hadley Wickham |
| Oct 12 | Computing and visualizing effects from log-linear models, Oksana |
| Oct 26 | Topics in functional Imaging, Ranjan Maitra |
| Nov 2 | Monitoring the election results, Heike Hofmann |
| Nov 9,16 | A collection of problems in Spatial Statistics and an application of standard (and non-standard) tools to an Environmental Problem, Petrutza Caragea |
| Nov 30 | The Individual Experience (Multivariate Longitudinal Data), Di Cook |
| Dec 7 | The Quantification of Alternate Movement Techniques: Procrustes Motion Analysis (PMA), Melinda Cerney |
Spring 2004 meetings
| Date | Topic/Speaker |
| Feb 4 | How to make R packages, Eun-kyung Lee slides |
| Feb 12 | Analysis of gene microarray expression data: the effect of UV in plant development |
| Feb 18 | Scatterplots for Massive Data, Aulia Hardjasamudra |
| Feb 25 | Linux, what it can do for you, Ted Peterson |
| Mar 3 | Running intensive simulations on campus workstations, Ozlem Ilk |
Fall 2003 meetings
| Date | Topic/Speaker |
| Sep 2 | Statistical Graphics: An Ace in the Sleeve of the Statistician, Heike Hofmann |
| Sep 9 | functional MRI, Ranjan Maitra |
| Sep 16 | On the Capacity of a Separating Hyperplane, Eun Kyung Lee |
| Sep 26 | Specifying the Grammar of Graphics, Graham Wills, SPSS Inc |
| Sep 30 | Visual Methods for Two-Factor Single-Replicate Gene Expression Studies, Di Cook |
| Oct 7 | Building a Bridge Between Graphics and Models, Ozlem Ilk |
| Oct 14, 21 | Thesis discussion: Di's slides |
| Oct 28 | Numerical Methods for Branching Processes, Karin Dorman |
| Oct 30 | Simple Parallel Statistical Computing in R, Luke Tierney |
| Nov 11 | Graphical methods for time-profile replicated expression data: the effect of ultra-violet light in plant development, Lixia Diao |
| Dec 2 | Random Forests - a Look Inside the "Black Box", Adele Cutler |