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The Computing and Graphics Newsletter is distributed to members of the Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Sections of the ASA. Their annual dues assist section activities. If you are an ASA member, but do not belong to either of these Sections, please consider joining. If you are not an ASA member, but find the articles in the Newsletter interesting, you might want to give our organization a look.

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The Newsletter is produced by two volunteer editors, one from each of the Computing and Graphics Sections, with articles from both ASA members and non-members. Our current editors are Juana Sanchez (Computing) and Andreas Krause (Graphics). We are eager to hear both from people who receive the Newsletter regularly as well as interested visitors who have examined our site. Consider giving us feedback about how we can improve this service.

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Volume 18, Number 1 [PDF ]

Featured articles include:

Reshaping Data
by Hadley Wickham
JGR: Java GUI for R
by Markus Helbig, Martin Theus, and Simon Urbanek

Volume 16, Number 1 [ PDF ]

Featured articles include:

Expanding your statistical computing toolbox with Python
by Brooke Fridley, Rhonda DeCook, and Howard Butler
Using pdfscreen for interactive presentations
by Di Cook

Volume 15, Number 1 [ PDF ]

Featured articles include:

Prosper: A LaTeX documentclass for presentations
by Rouben Rostamdian
iPlots: Interactive Graphics for R
by Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek

Volume 14, Number 1 [ PDF ]

Special feature article:

Tools to aid in the display and distribution of computer program code across computing platforms.
by John C. Nash

Featured articles include:

Analysing Gene Expression Data in R with the package SAG
by Per Broberg
Usability of Scatter Plot Symbols
by Heman Robinson
Layering Images for Large Data Visualization
by Manuel Suarez

Volume 13, Number 2 [ PDF ]

Special feature article:

Dynamically Conditioned Choropleth Maps
by Dan Carr

Featured articles include:

Experiences with BioConductor
by Heike Hofmann
Mondrian
by Martin Theus
JSOMap - A Java-based Self-Organizing Map Package
by Zach Cox

Volume 13, Number 1 [ PDF ]

Special feature article:

It's Just Implementation,
by Di Cook, Igor Perisic, Duncan Temple Lang and Luke Tierney.

Feature articles include:

An Introduction to the Bootstrap, with examples in R
by A.C. Davison and Diego Kuonen
GGobi
by Deborah F. Swayne, AT\& T Labs-Research.
Making trees interactive with KLIMT- A COSADA Software Project
by Simon Urbanek and Antony R. Unwin, Department of Computeroriented Statistics and Data Analysis, Augsburg University

Volume 12, Number 1 [ PDF ]

Special feature article:

Report from the Workshop on Modern Statistical Computing and Graphics in Academia
by Deborah F. Swayne, Di Cook, Mark Hansen, Guy Nason, Duncan Temple Lang and Adalbert Wilhelm.

Feature articles include:

The Next Stage For Analytics: Bringing Statistics to the Masses
by Dr. Bill Ladd, Director Bioinformatics, Spotfire, Inc.
Visualization for Information Consumers
by Stephen G. Eick, Visual Insight
S-PLUS Graphlets
by Charles Roosen, PhD, Senior Statistician, Insightful Corporation
COSADA Software Projects in Augsburg
by Antony R. Unwin, Department of Computeroriented Statistics and Data Analysis, Augsburg University
Streaming Graphics
by Andrew A. Norton, Matthew A. Rubin, Leland Wilkinson, SPSS, Inc.
Rolling Your Own: Linear Model Hypothesis Testing and Power Calculations via the Singular Value Decomposition.
by Steve Verrill, Mathematical Statistician, USDA Forest Service Forest, Madison.
Correspondence Analysis with R
Brigitte Charnomordic, Biometrie, INRA, France and Susan Holmes, Statistics Department, Stanford\\
Scenarios for Statistics; Teaching Statistical Computing with Flash.
by Susan Holmes, Statistics, Stanford

Volume 11, Number 1 [ PDF ]

Special feature article:

Revisions of Minard
by Michael Friendly, www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html

Feature articles include:

Turning the tables with TURNER
by Stephan Lauer
A Good Simple Axis
by Graham Wills
Odds Ratio Analaysis with computer system CORA
by Iris Pigeot and Ursula Roberts

Volume 10, Number 1 [ PDF ]

Special feature article:

Internet measurement and data analysis: topology, workload, performance and routing statistics
by kc claffy and Sean McCreary, CAIDA

Feature articles include:

Connected teaching of statistics
by Wolfgang Haerdle, Sigbert Klinke and Steve Marron
Linked data views
by Graham Wills
Using layering and perceptual grouping in statistical graphics
by Dan Carr and Ru Sun

Volume 9, Number 2 [ PDF ]

Special feature article:

Coding and Model Selection: a Brief Tutorial on the Principle of Minimum Description Length
by Bin Yu

Feature articles include:

Just Make It!
by Steve Golowich and Duncan Temple Lang
Exploring Time Series Graphically
by Antony Unwin and Graham Wills
Boxplot Variations in a Spatial Context: An Omernik Ecoregion and Weather Example
by Daniel B. Carr, Anthony R. Olsen, Suzanne M. Pierson, Jean-Yves P. Courbois
Simpson on Board the Titanic? Interactive Methods for Dealing With Multivariate Categorical Data
by Heike Hofmann

Volume 9, Number 1 [ PDF ]

Special feature article:

Interactive Education: A Framework and Tools
by Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang

Feature articles include:

Intrusion Detection Based on Structural Zeroes
by Martin Theus and Matthias Schonlau
Mosaic Displays in S-PLUS: A General Implementation and a Case Study
by John W. Emerson
Linked Micromap Plots: Named and Described
by Daniel B. Carr, Anthony R. Olsen, Jean-Yves P. Courbois, Suzanne M. Pierson, and D. Andrew Carr

Volume 8, Number 2/3 [ PDF ]

Special feature article:

Spatio-temporal Rainfall Processes: Stochastic Models and Data Analysis
by Richard Chandler, Valerie Isham and Paul Northrop

Feature articles include:

Modeling and Characterizing Microstructures Using Spatial Point Processes
by Nandini Raghavan and Prem K. Goel
l1 Tortoise Gains on l2 Hare
by Roger Koenker
A Shaker Approach to Web Site Design
by Michael D. Levi
ISEA Discrete Global Grids
by Dan Carr, Ralph Kahn, Kevin Sahr, and Tony Olsen

Volume 8, Number 1 [ PDF ]

Feature articles include:

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a Team Sport
by Bill Eddy
Locfit : An Introduction
by Clive Loader
Data Exploration with the Density Grand Tour
by John D. Salch and David W. Scott
Templates for Looking at Gene Expression Clustering
by Daniel B. Carr, Roland Somogyi and George Michaels

Volume 7, Number 3 [ PDF ]

Special feature article:

Computational Anatomy: An Emerging Discipline
by Ulf Grenander and Michael I. Miller

Other featured articles include:

Plot Interpretation and Information Webs: A Time-Series Example from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
by Dan Carr, Richard Valliant and Dan Rope
Why Perl?
by Phil Spector

Volume 7, Number 1 [ PDF ]

Includes the featured articles:

Simplifying Visual Appearance by Sorting: An Example using 159 AVHRR Classes
by Dan Carr and Anthony Olsen
Context-Rich Graphical Displays
by David James

Back Issues are also available.

Volume 6, Number 3 [ PDF ]
Volume 6, Number 2 [ PDF ]
Volume 6, Number 1 [ PDF ]
Volume 5, Number 3 [ PDF ]
Includes the featured article

Teaching Statistics and Computing via Multimedia through the World Wide Web
by A. J. Rossini and J. L. Rosenberger

Volume 5, Number 2 [ PDF ]
Volume 5, Number 1 [ PDF ]
Includes the featured article

The process of Reading Statistical Maps: The Effect of Color
by L. W. Pickle and D. J. Herrmann

Volume 4, Number 3 [ PDF ]
Includes the featured article

Easy Access to Census Data
by M. Schall

Volume 4, Number 2 [ PDF ]
Includes the featured article

So, You Want to Make A Video!
by W. F. Eddy and K. Shirakawa

Volume 4, Number 1 [ PDF ]
Includes the featured article

Saxpy, gaxpy, LAPACK and BLAS
by Colin Goodall

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For example, each Section sponsors student paper competitions, designed to help students with interests in computing and graphics. Each co-sponsors various meetings like the Symposia on the Interface between Computing Science and Statistics. We also promote continuing education courses at the annual ASA meetings.

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[ Juana Sanchez, Computing Section Editor | Computing Section ]

[ Di Cook, Graphics Section Editor | Graphics Section | ]

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Last modified: January 22, 2003