Michael Louis Friendly (born 1945) is an American-Canadian
psychologist
A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how indi ...
, Professor of
Psychology at
York University in Ontario, Canada, and director of its Statistical Consulting Service, especially known for his contributions to graphical methods for categorical and multivariate data, and on the history of
data and
information visualisation.
Biography
Born in
New York City, Friendly obtained his BS in 1966 from the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...
, and his MS in 1969 from
Princeton University. In 1971/2 he also obtained his PhD in psychology at Princeton under supervision of
Harold Gulliksen
Harold Oliver Gulliksen (July 18, 1903 – October 27, 1996) was an American psychologist. A professor at Princeton University for most of his academic career, Gulliksen pioneered in the field of psychometrics. In 1952 he was elected as a Fellow ...
and Peter Ornstein, with the thesis titled "Proximity Analysis and the Structure of Organization in Free Recall."
Friendly's first research project in the field of
psychometrics and
cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...
had started at the
Educational Testing Service and
Princeton University, and was made possible by a Psychometric Fellowship awarded by the Educational Testing Service. After graduation Friendly jointed the Department of Psychology at the
York University in Ontario, Canada, where he continued his research. At the York University he was appointed Associate Professor and later on Professor of Psychology, and since 1985 also director of its Statistical Consulting Service.
Friendly is Associate Editor of the ''Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics'' and an Editor of ''Statistical Science.''
In 2018 he became a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Work
Friendly's research interests have developed over years. It started in the 1970s with the application of quantitative and computer methods to problems in
cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...
, including the cognitive aspects of extracting information from graphical displays. In the 1990s Friendly started focussing on the history of statistics and data visualization, and furthermore graphical methods for data and information visualization.
Profiles of Faculty Members in the History and Theory of Psychology Area
. Department of Psychology. York University. Retrieved 07 July 2008.
Publications
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Selected articles and reports
* 1991. "Interpreting higher order interactions in loglinear analysis: A picture is worth 1000 words". With John Fox. Tech. rep., Institute for Social Research, York University, Toronto, CA.
* 1992. "Graphical methods for categorical data". In: ''Proceedings of the SAS User's Group International Conference'', 17:1367-1373.
* 1994
"A fourfold display for 2 by 2 by K tables"
Tech. Rep. 217, York University, Psychology Dept.
* 1994. "Mosaic displays for multi-way contingency tables". In: ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'', 89:190-200.
* 2000
"A brief history of the mosaic display."
''Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics''. 11(1):89-107. URL
* 2000. "The roots and branches of statistical graphics". With Dan Denis. In: ''Journal de la Société Française de Statistique'', 141(4):51-60. (published in 2001).
* 2001/2008
"Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization"
URL ''www.datavis.ca/milestones'' 32 (2001): 13. .
Visualizing nature and society
. With Gilles Palsky. In: James R. Akerman
James Richard Akerman (born October 1956) is an American geographer, director of the Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. At the Newberry he serves as Curator of Maps. He is known for his work on the his ...
and Robert W. Karrow, eds., ''Maps: Finding Our Place in the World'', pp. 205–251. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
* 2007
"HE plots for Multivariate General Linear Models."
''Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics'', 16, 421-444.
References
External links
Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization
An illustrated chronology of innovations by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis.
The Past, Present and Future of Statistical Graphics
a 2004 presentation by Michael Friendly on VIEWS, London, Nov, 2004.
Carme 2011 - Advances in visualizing categorical data - Michael Friendly
a 2011 presentation by Michael Friendly at Carme 2011
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1945 births
Living people
American psychologists
Information visualization experts
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Princeton University alumni
York University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association