Dianne Cook (statistician)

Dianne Cook
Born
Dianne Helen Cook

Alma materUniversity of New England (BSc, DipEd)
Rutgers University (MSc, PhD)
OccupationsProfessor of econometrics & business statistics
Known forGGobi
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical graphics
Data science
Multivariate data
InstitutionsIowa State University (1993–2015)
Monash University (2015–present)
ThesisGrand Tour and Projection Pursuit (1993)
Doctoral advisorAndreas Buja
Javier Cabrera
Doctoral studentsHadley Wickham, Yihui Xie
Websitewww.dicook.org

Dianne Helen Cook is an Australian statistician, the former editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 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 and professor emeritus of statistics at Iowa State University. The emeritus status was chosen so that she could continue to supervise graduate students at Iowa State after moving to Australia.