Invited talks and seminars

date title location details
2023-12-12

Visually exploring local explanations to understand complex machine learning models

ASC and OZCOTS 2023 contributed
2023-12-07

New tools for visualising high-dimensional data using linear projections

IASC ARS 2023 keynote
2023-10-20

How do we know what we don’t know?

Montevideo, Uruguay keynote
2022-11-24

Visually exploring local explanations to understand complex machine learning models

Stellenbosch U., South Africa invited talk
2022-08-29

Myth busting and apophenia in data visualisation: Is what you see really there?

Macquarie U., Australia invited talk
2022-07-20

A showcase of new methods for high dimensional data viewing with linear projections and sections

IFCS '22, Porto, Portugal keynote
2021-06-21

Uncertainty in data visualisation through the lens of statistical inference

Rostock Retreat on Data Visualization at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research keynote
2021-02-03

In Visualising Data, Who Wins?

Gosset lecture, Irish Statistical Association named lecture
2020-07-20

The paradox of the positive: exploratory tools for visualising the individuals in (multivariate) longitudinal data

IBC 2020 keynote
2020-06-24

Making inference using data plots, with application to ecological statistics

vISEC 2020 keynote
2019-09-18

Statistics on Street Corners

CSIRO Data61, Canberra, Australia invited talk
2019-08-20

Building plots to explore data

62nd ISI World Statistics Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia contributed
2019-08-14

Human vs computer: In Visualising Data, Who Wins?

DSSV '19, Kyoto, Japan keynote
2019-07-30

Give Your Statistician Colleague Iris Bulbs for Their House Warming!

JSM 2019, Denver, Colorado invited talk
2018-10-15

Human vs computer: when visualising data, who wins?

Belz Lecture, Statistical Society of Victoria named lecture
2018-09-12

Visualisation of high-dimensional spaces with application to econometric data and models

U. Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia invited talk
2018-08-28

Visualisation of high-dimensional particle physics

IASCB-ASC 2018, Melbourne, Australia contributed
2018-07-30

EDA: A Historical Perspective and a Path Forward

JSM 2018, Vancouver, Canada invited talk
2018-03-07

Myth busting and apophenia in data visualisation: is what you see really there?

Ihaka Lecture, University of Auckland, NZ named lecture
2018-02-12

Visualising high-dimensional spaces with application to particle physics models

NUS/IMS Workshop and Tutorial on Social Networks, Singapore invited lecture
2018-02-02

To the Tidyverse and Beyond: Challenges for the Future in Data Science

RStudio conference, San Diego, CA keynote
2017-11-27

Statistics on Street Corners

Biometrics by the Border, Kingscliff, NSW keynote
2017-09-26

Statistics on Street Corners

Young Statisticians Conference 2017, Coolangatta, QLD keynote
2017-07-29

A girl geek’s guide to new research on interactive data visualization for statistics with lots of data.

JSM '17, Baltimore, MD invited talk
2017-05-19

The Glue that Binds Statistical Inference, Tidy Data, Grammar of Graphics, Visual Inference

School of Maths and Stats, U. Sydney, invited talk
2017-05-18

The Glue that Binds Statistical Inference, Tidy Data, Grammar of Graphics, Visual Inference

Finance, Actuarial Studies \& Statistics, Australian National University, Canberra. invited talk
2017-05-03

Accessing data and developing analysis software, to study game strategies, with examples from tennis and soccer

ACEMS Workshop: Maths and Stats for Sports Research, Brisbane, Australia. NA
2016-11-28

Statistics on Street Corners

2016 Joint New Zealand Statistical Association/Operations Research Society of New Zealand Conference, Auckland, New Zealand keynote
2016-11-25

The Role of Open Data, Open Source Software and Data Visualisation in Developing Quantitative Citizenship

Auckland Teachers Day, New Zealand invited talk
2016-10-27

Harnessing Crowd-Sourcing to Select Genes based on Effect Size Using Visual Inference Methods

Vic Biostat, Melbourne, Australia invited talk
2016-10-20

Taskforce on Women in R

Women in Statistics, Charlotte, NC invited talk
2016-10-18

The Role of R and Data Visualisation in Understanding Our World

R Ladies, Melbourne, Australia invited talk
2016-05-28

Statistics on Street Corners

International Statistics Forum, Beijing, China keynote
2016-05-27

Really? Using the nullabor package to learn if what we see is really there?

China-R, Capital of Statistics, Beijing, China invited talk
2016-03-15

Is what you see really there? Combining statistical inference with exploratory data analysis

University of Melbourne, Australi invited talk
2016-02-19

Really? Using the nullabor package to learn if what we see is really there?

WOMBAT 2016, Melbourne, Australia invited talk
2015-12-08

Is what you see really there? Combining statistical inference with exploratory data analysis

Bayes on the Beach, Surfers Paradise, Australia keynote
2015-12-02

Visualisation in Big Data Analysis: Constructing useful plots, using interactivity, incorporating inference

Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Applied Statistics Summer Camp, Murramurang, Australia plenary
2015-11-04

Statistical Inference by Crowd-Sourcing

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY invited talk
2015-09-24

Is what you see really there?

Big Data Visual Analytics '15, Hobart, Australia keynote
2015-07-02

A survey of two decades of efforts to build interactive graphics capacity in R

useR! '15. Aalborg, Denmark keynote
2015-06-29

Eye-balling is OK again: Using an eye-tracker to see how people read data plots

Data meets Vis: Interactions and Interactivity, Augsburg, Germany invited talk
2015-06-17

Data Visualization and Statistical Graphics in Big Data Analysis

Statistical Inference, Learning and Models for Big Data, Boot Camp, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada invited talk
2014-08-03

Harnessing Crowd-Sourcing to Select Genes based on Effect Size Using Visual Inference Methods

JSM '14, Boston, MA. invited talk
2014-07-11

Statistical Inference by Crowd-Sourcing

ASC, Sydney, Australia invited talk
2014-04-21

Statistical Inference by Crowd-Sourcing

Montana State University, Bozeman, MT invited talk
2014-02-18

Statistical Inference by Crowd-Sourcing

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI invited talk
2013-08-04

Big Data and R, Discussant

JSM '13, Montreal, Canada invited talk
2013-06-10

Recent Advances in Visualization Techniques

NCSES Digital SEQ, Washington, DC invited talk
2012-10-18

Statistical Inference for Data Visualization

Carl Morris Honorary Symposium, Washington D. C. keynote
2012-06-19

Every Plot Must Tell a Story

useR! 2012, Nashville, TN keynote
2012-05-16

ggbio: Extending the Grammar of Graphics to Genomic Data

Interface Between Statistics and Computing Science, Houston, T invited talk
2012-02-20

An Overview of Statistical Inference

Dagstuhl Information Visualization, Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning,Dagstuhl, Germany invited talk
2012-02-13

Overview of Biological Visualization

ISU BCB Seminar Series, Ames, IA NA
2011-10-20

Show Me the Data

Christian Petersen Art Museum, Morrill Hall NA
2011-08-22

Statistical Inference for Visual Methods

International Indian Statistical Association, Raleigh, NC invited talk
2011-08-02

Introductory Overview Lecture: Statistical Graphics

JSM 2011, Miami, FL invited talk
2011-08-01

Visualizing Climate Change Data

JSM 2011, Miami, FL NA
2011-06-03

Exploring Dose Response Data and Repeated Measures Data Using Interactive Graphics

SCVMMI, Dubuque, IA invited talk
2011-02-16

Visual communication

CEAH Colloquium, Ames, IA invited talk
2010-02-08

Statistical Inference for Visual Methods

Iowa State University invited talk
2009-10-15

Statistical Inference for Visual Methods

University of Washington, St Louis invited talk
2009-08-18

Using R and GGobi to Enhance the Learning of Multivariate Analysis and Data Mining

ISI 2009, Durban, South Africa invited talk
2009-07-15

Exploring Variation in Data with Statistical Graphics

Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge, US Census Bureau, Washington DC invited talk
2009-03-27

Exploring Longitudinal Data: A Peek at Workforce Experiences

Second Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium, University of Chicago invited talk
2009-02-23

From Restaurants to Climate Change: Using Statistics to Understand Our World

Mathematics on the Road Experience, Prairie Lakes AEA invited talk
2009-02-10

Statistical Inference for Visual Methods

Houston Chapter of the American Statistical Society invited talk
2008-06-27

Brain Candy: Using Data Graphics to Learn about Variability and Uncertainty in Our World

PCST-10 (Public Communication in Science and Technology, Malmo, Sweden invited talk
2008-06-25

Categorical Variable Linking for Exploring Longitudinal Data

Data Vis VI, Bremen, Germany invited talk
2008-05-30

Using R and Ggobi for Exploratory Data Analysis

Seminar in Statistik, ETH, Zurich invited talk
2008-05-29

Exploring Longitudinal Data: A Look at Workforce Experiences

Z\"{u}rcher Kolloquium, ETH, Zurich invited talk
2008-04-25

An Exploratory Approach to Longitudinal Data Analysis

Department of Statistics, University of Bristol, UK invited talk
2008-03-28

An Exploratory Approach to Longitudinal Data Analysis

Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK invited talk
2008-03-06

An Exploratory Approach to Longitudinal Data Analysis

Department of Statistics, Oxford University, UK invited talk
2008-01-10

Looking at Models in High-Dimensional Data Space

Contemporary Frontiers in High-Dimensional Statistical Data Analysis, Cambridge, UK invited talk
2007-08-01

Improving Statistical Posters

Introductory Overview Lecture, JSM '07 invited talk
2007-08-01

Exploring models for clustering data

JSM '07 invited talk
2006-12-01

An EDA of my CDs

University of Auckland, New Zealand invited talk
2006-05-01

An EDA of my CDs

University of California, Los Angele invited talk
2005-10-01

Graphics for Multivariate Data

Gold Standard(s) for Education conference, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada invited talk
2005-03-01

Exploring Microarray Data with Plots

University of Iowa invited talk
2004-07-15

Visualizing Class and Cluster Structure beyond 3D

International Federation of Classification Societies annual meeting, Chicago, IL invited talk
2004-04-22

Visual Methods for Data from Two Factor Single-Replicate Gene Expression Studies

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia invited talk
2004-04-19

Visual Methods for Data from Two Factor Single-Replicate Gene Expression Studies

Department of Statistics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia invited talk
2004-03-21

CSIRO, Sydney, Australia

CSIRO, Sydney, Australia invited talk
2004-03-16

Data through the windshield in p-dimensions

Department of Statistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia invited talk
2004-02-27

EDA using Direct Manipulation Graphics

Sydney Summer Statistics Workshop, Sydney University, Australia invited talk
2003-09-10

Using Graphics in Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining: An Application of Supervised Classification in Olive Oil Qualit

Data Mining and Machine Learning workshop, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Science Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC invited talk
2003-04-10

Some Dynamic Graphical Tools to Assist Analysis of Microarray Data

Workshop on Microarrays, Victorian Microarray Technology Consortium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia keynote
2002-12-13

Classification Tours Applied to Microarray Data

Department of Statistics, Harvard University invited talk
2002-10-08

Using Multimedia Animation with Real-time Graphic Overlays for Visualizing a Million Cases of Multivariate Data

How to Visualize a Million, Augsburg, Germany invited talk
2002-09-12

Visualization of Microarrays Using Tours and Projection Pursuit

Cambridge HealthTech Institute Conference, Washington, DC invited talk
2002-07-17

JUnderstanding Support Vector Machine Classifiers using Graphics

Current Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics, Crete, Greece invited talk
2002-07-11

Limn: Using Movie Technology to Drive Graphics for Massive Amounts of Data

University of Augsburg, Germany invited talk
2002-04-09

Dynamic Graphics for Multivariate Space-Time Data

Geology Department, ISU invited talk
2001-12-12

Visual Data Mining of Large, Multivariate Space-Time Data

American Geophysical Union San Francisco invited talk
2001-10-01

Visual Data Mining: Interactive Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis

Department of Statistics, Macquarie university, Australia invited talk
2001-07-01

Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis}

Workshop on Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy, Penn State University, State College, PN invited talk
2001-05-01

Visual Data Mining of Large, Multivariate Space-Time Data

Dept of Statistics, University of Western Australia invited talk
2001-01-01

Limn, to present an image or lifelike imitation of; Limit-n, to explore any data set to its limits

Workshop on Non-parametric Statistics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX invited talk
2000-11-01

Immersed in Statistics: your worst nightmare or your wildest dream!

Da Vinci Colloquium, Dallas, TX colloquium
2000-11-01

Visual Methods for Classification Problem

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX invited talk
2000-07-01

Issues and Approaches for Visualization of Large Multi-Dimensional Data

NRCSE/GSP Workshop, Boulder, CO invited talk

And another 30 or so delivered before 2000.