Dianne Helen Cook is an Australian statistician, the editor of the ''

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of personal secretive thoughts and as open book to personal therapy or used to feel connected to onesel ...

'', and an expert on the visualization of high-dimensional data. She is Professor of Business Analytics in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at

Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

and professor emeritus of statistics at

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricult ...

. The

emeritus ''Emeritus/Emerita'' () is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus". In some c ...

status was chosen so that she could continue to supervise graduate students at Iowa State after moving to Australia.

Education and early life

Dianne Helen Cook grew up in

Wauchope, New South Wales Wauchope ( ) is a town in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is within the boundaries of the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council area. Wauchope is inland on the Hastings River and the Oxley Highway west of Port Mac ...

as an athletic farm girl, the first woman to play on her local (men's)

cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

team. She studied statistics at

University of New England (Australia) The University of New England (UNE) is a public university in New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1938, it was the first Australian university to be established outside of a state capital. Its main campus is located in the regional city of ...

, where she earned a BSc and Dip.Ed. in 1982. She received her MS in 1990 and her

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in 1993 from

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

; her dissertation, supervised jointly by Andreas Buja and Javier Cabrera, was ''Grand Tour and Projection Pursuit''.

Career and research

Cook joined the

faculty in 1993, and remained there until her move to

in 2015. At Iowa State, her students have included

Hadley Wickham Hadley Alexander Wickham (born 14 October 1979) is a New Zealand statistician known for his work on open-source software for the R (programming language), R statistical programming environment. He is the Chief scientific officer, chief scientist ...

and Yihui Xie. She is one of the developers of GGobi, and with Deborah F. Swayne, she is the author of ''Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: With R and GGobi'' (Springer, 2007). She is a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The designation of ASA Fellow has been a sign ...

. She was editor of the

from 2016 to 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Dianne Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian statisticians Australian women statisticians University of New England (Australia) alumni Rutgers University alumni R (programming language) people Iowa State University faculty Academic staff of Monash University Fellows of the American Statistical Association People from Wauchope, New South Wales