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Dianne Cook is a Professor of Business Analytics at Monash University, in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and serves as an editor for the Journal of Computational Graphical Statistics. Her research is mainly focused on data science, data visualization, exploratory data analysis, data mining, and high-dimensional statistical methods. She engages deeply in her research and emphasizes the importance of teaching and advising students in the development of open-source software. Cook's notable contributions include the development of interactive statistical graphics for high-dimensional data, through her software packages such as xgobi and ggobi. She has conducted extensive experiments using Amazon's Mechanical Turk and eye-tracking technology to investigate how people interpret statistical visualizations. Additionally, her work spans various applications, including educational testing, drug studies, and climate change, contributing to significant insights in understanding data through visual means. Currently, she is focused on analyzing Melbourne's pedestrian sensor data and exploring gender differences in educational assessments, particularly in mathematics and reading.
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