Newsletter v22 i1 now out!

Download now!. Featured articles:

• Visualization: It’s More than Pictures! by Robert Kosara
  
• Visualization, Graphics, and Statistics by Andrew Gelman and Antony Unwin
  
• Heuristic Methods in Finance by Enrico Schumann and David Ardia

2011 Chambers Award

We are pleased to announce that the judges of the Chambers Award have
selected the winner of the 2011 competition: Ian Fellows, from
University of California - Los Angeles. Ian received this year's
award for his submission "Deducer's Plot Builder: A General GUI for
Statistical Graphics", an elegant graphical user interface for
creating publication quality statistical graphics. It is designed as a
free easy-to-use alternative to proprietary data analysis software
such as SPSS, JMP, and Minitab, with a menu system for common data
manipulation and analysis tasks, as well as a spreadsheet to view and
edit data frames.

In addition to the US$1000 prize, the winner will have his JSM
registration paid by the Computing Section and be reimbursed for
travel and housing at the meeting. As usual, the award will be
presented at the Section's business meeting/mixer on Monday evening.

The judges for this year's competition were Yihui Xie, Michael Kane,
and Hadley Wickham. Many thanks!

Newsletter v20 i2 now out!

Download now!. Featured articles:

• barNest: Illustrating nested summary measures by Jim Lemon and Ofir Levy
  
• You say "graph invariant," I say "test statistic" by Carey E. Priebe, Glen A. Coppersmith and Andrey Rukhin
  
• Computation in Large-Scale Scientific and Internet Data Applications is a Focus of MMDS 2010by Michael W. Mahoney
  

Use of Graphics in Clinical Trials

The JSM 2010 Invited Session, "Use of Graphics in Clinical Trials" was standing room only - if you missed out you can download the presentations online: http://stat-computing.org/events/2010-jsm/

Latest newsletter (20-2) now online!

The new issue, Vol. 20-2, of the ASA section for statistical computing
and graphics is online now!

This issue contains three articles:

• High-Flying Graphics at the 2009 Data Expo by Rick Wicklin


• Hadoop for Statistical Analysis and Exploration by Byron Ellis


• Statistical Graphics! - Who needs Visual Analytics? by Martin Theus

Our section heads provide interesting views in their column "A word from
our section chairs", we look back at the highlights of the JSM 2009, and
feature a reader response from Naomi Robbins. These articles all provide
interesting reading and we hope you enjoy them.

Happy holidays and a wonderful new year 2010 to everyone!

Nicholas Lewin-Koh (Computing)
Andreas Krause (Graphics)

The Statistical Computing and Graphics Award

The ASA Sections of Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics have established the Statistical Computing and Graphics Award to recognize an individual or team for innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a great impact on statistical practice or research. Typically, awards are granted bi-annually.

The prize carries with it a cash award of $5,000 plus an allowance of up to $1,000 for travel to the annual Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) where the award will be presented.

Learn more

Webinar: How to Avoid Some Common Graphical Mistakes

Interested in avoiding common graphical mistakes? You might be interested in the ASA webinar hosted by Naomi Robbins, offered this February. Find out more at http://www.amstat.org/sections/graphics/webinar.cfm