Michael Lewis Friendly (born 1945) is a Professor of
PsychologyPsychology is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic, and sometimes scientific, study of human or animal mental functions and behavior...
at
York UniversityYork University is a university located in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's third-largest university and has produced several of the country's top leaders across the humanities and in sciences such as chemistry, meteorology and space science....
in Ontario, Canada, and an Associate Coordinator with the Statistical Consulting Service.
Michael Friendly received his PhD in 1972 in
psychometricsPsychometrics is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of educational and psychological measurement, which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits. The field is primarily concerned with the study of measurement instruments such as...
and
cognitive psychologyCognitive psychology is a discipline within psychology that investigates the internal mental processes of thought such as visual processing, memory, problem solving, and language....
from
Princeton UniversityPrinceton University a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges....
's
Department of PsychologyThe Princeton University Department of Psychology, located in Green Hall, is an academic department of Princeton University on the corner of Washington St. and William St. in Princeton, New Jersey. For over a century, the department has been among the foremost psychology departments in the country...
. There he held a Psychometric Fellowship awarded by the Educational Testing Service.
He is Professor of Psychology at
York UniversityYork University is a university located in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's third-largest university and has produced several of the country's top leaders across the humanities and in sciences such as chemistry, meteorology and space science....
, Canada, and has been associate coordinator and director of the Statistical Consulting Service since 1985.
He is Associate Editor of the
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
His research interests developed from generally applying quantitative and computer methods to problems in cognitive psychology, including the cognitive aspects of extracting information from graphical displays in 1991 to the history of statistics and data visualization; graphical methods for data and information visualization in 2008.
- Charles Joseph Minard
Charles Joseph Minard was a French civil engineer noted for his inventions in the field of information graphics.- Biography :...
- GGobi
GGobi is a statistical software tool used for graphing various types of data. GGobi allows extensive exploration of the data with dynamic graphics. It is also a tool for looking at multivariate data. R can be used in sync with GGobi. GGobi prides itself on its ability to link multiple graphs...
- Information visualization
Information visualization is the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information, such as files and lines of code in software systems".- Overview :...
- Scientific visualization
Scientific visualization is an interdisciplinary branch of science according to Friendly "primarily concerned with the visualization of three dimensional|3-D+ phenomena , where the emphasis is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth,...
- Visualization
The term visualization or visualisation may refer to:* Creative visualization* Flow visualization* Geovisualization* Illustration* Information graphics, visual representations of information, data, or knowledge* Information visualization...
Friendly is the author of four books and numerous research papers.
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Michael Lewis Friendly (born 1945) is a Professor of
PsychologyPsychology is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic, and sometimes scientific, study of human or animal mental functions and behavior...
at
York UniversityYork University is a university located in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's third-largest university and has produced several of the country's top leaders across the humanities and in sciences such as chemistry, meteorology and space science....
in Ontario, Canada, and an Associate Coordinator with the Statistical Consulting Service.
Biography
Michael Friendly received his PhD in 1972 in
psychometricsPsychometrics is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of educational and psychological measurement, which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits. The field is primarily concerned with the study of measurement instruments such as...
and
cognitive psychologyCognitive psychology is a discipline within psychology that investigates the internal mental processes of thought such as visual processing, memory, problem solving, and language....
from
Princeton UniversityPrinceton University a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges....
's
Department of PsychologyThe Princeton University Department of Psychology, located in Green Hall, is an academic department of Princeton University on the corner of Washington St. and William St. in Princeton, New Jersey. For over a century, the department has been among the foremost psychology departments in the country...
. There he held a Psychometric Fellowship awarded by the Educational Testing Service.
He is Professor of Psychology at
York UniversityYork University is a university located in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's third-largest university and has produced several of the country's top leaders across the humanities and in sciences such as chemistry, meteorology and space science....
, Canada, and has been associate coordinator and director of the Statistical Consulting Service since 1985.
He is Associate Editor of the
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
Work
His research interests developed from generally applying quantitative and computer methods to problems in cognitive psychology, including the cognitive aspects of extracting information from graphical displays in 1991 to the history of statistics and data visualization; graphical methods for data and information visualization in 2008.
See also
- Charles Joseph Minard
Charles Joseph Minard was a French civil engineer noted for his inventions in the field of information graphics.- Biography :...
- GGobi
GGobi is a statistical software tool used for graphing various types of data. GGobi allows extensive exploration of the data with dynamic graphics. It is also a tool for looking at multivariate data. R can be used in sync with GGobi. GGobi prides itself on its ability to link multiple graphs...
- Information visualization
Information visualization is the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information, such as files and lines of code in software systems".- Overview :...
- Scientific visualization
Scientific visualization is an interdisciplinary branch of science according to Friendly "primarily concerned with the visualization of three dimensional|3-D+ phenomena , where the emphasis is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth,...
- Visualization
The term visualization or visualisation may refer to:* Creative visualization* Flow visualization* Geovisualization* Illustration* Information graphics, visual representations of information, data, or knowledge* Information visualization...
Publications
Friendly is the author of four books and numerous research papers. Books:
- 1988. Advanced Logo: A Language for Learning. Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- 1991. SAS System for Statistical Graphics. Medium: Paperback.
- 2000. Visualizing Categorical Data. Cary, NC: SAS Institute.
- 2006. Visual statistics : seeing data with dynamic interactive graphics. With Forrest W. Young and Pedro M. Valero-Mora. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience.
Articles, reports, papers. A selection:
- 1991. "Interpreting higher order interactions in loglinear analysis: A picture is worth 1000 words". With John Fox. Tech. rep., Institute for Social Research, York University, Toronto, CA.
- 1992. "Graphical methods for categorical data". In: Proceedings of the SAS User's Group International Conference, 17:1367-1373.
- 1994. "A fourfold display for 2 by 2 by K tables". Tech. Rep. 217, York University, Psychology Dept.
- 1994. "Mosaic displays for multi-way contingency tables". In: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89:190-200.
- 2000. "A brief history of the mosaic display." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 11(1):89-107. URL
- 2000. "The roots and branches of statistical graphics". With Dan Denis. In: Journal de la Société Française de Statistique, 141(4):51-60. (published in 2001).
- 2007. "A brief history of data visualization". In: C. Chen, Wolfgang Härdle and Antony Unwin, eds., Handbook of Computational Statistics: Data Visualization, vol. III, chap. 1, pp. 1-34. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
- 2007. "Visualizing nature and society". With Gilles Palsky. In: James R. Ackerman and Robert W. Karrow, eds., Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, pp. 205-251. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- 2007. "HE plots for Multivariate General Linear Models." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 16, 421-444.
- 2008. "Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization".
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