Research

My main research focuses are in visual statistics, statistics philosophy, and computational statistics. This means I spend a lot of time thinking about what an observation/statistic is, and how we can best represent it visually. Accurate visual representations of our data are crucial for communicating complicated statistical concepts (both with ourselves and others), so good visualisation tools are a necessity for the future of statistics.

Visualisations of random variables are, in of themselves, random variables, with their own statistical properties. Ensuring that these visualisations have good statistical properties is the key focus of my work.

Software

Usually any work I do will also have a software output to make implementing the theories easier. This is that software.

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package

title

version

released

last_update

downloads

ggdibbler

Add Uncertainty to Data Visualisations

0.6.1

31/07/2025

06/12/2025

1,371

cassowaryr

Compute Scagnostics on Pairs of Numeric Variables in a Data Set

2.0.2

09/08/2022

13/09/2024

35,118

Talks

These are the links to the slides for (almost) all the presentations I have given on my research.

date title venue
2025 Visualising Uncertainty for Holistic Insights ASC
2025 Visualising Uncertainty with ggdibbler WOMBAT
2025 Visualising Uncertainty with ggdibbler useR!
2024 The Noisy Work of Uncertainty Visualisation Research AMSI Winter School
2023 Teaching Computers to See Patterns in Scatterplots R Ladies, Melbourne
2022 Teaching Computers to See Patterns in Scatterplots useR!