New newsletter now available

The new Volume 20, No 1 of the Statistical Computing and Graphics newsletter is online now! The newsletter includes:

• Words from our new chairs, Jose Pinheiro and Antony Unwin,


• "Gapminder: Liberating the x-axis from the burden of time",


• "The Fan plot: displaying relative quantities and proportions",


• A conference report on MMDS 2008 (Modern Massive Data Sets),


• Short contributions on "Taking it to higher dimensions" and


• "A six-dimensional scatterplot" as well as


• The Technology and Commerce Corner and Conference News.

Best regards,

Nicholas Lewin-Koh and Andreas Krause (SCGN co-editors)