Michael Lewis Friendly is a Professor of Psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

 at York University

York University

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 in Ontario, Canada, and an Associate Coordinator with the Statistical Consulting Service.

Biography

Michael Friendly received his PhD in 1972 in psychometrics

Psychometrics

Psychometrics is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement, which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality traits, and educational measurement...

 and cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology

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 from Princeton University

Princeton University

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's Department of Psychology

Princeton University Department of Psychology

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. There he held a Psychometric Fellowship awarded by the Educational Testing Service.

He is Professor of Psychology at York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

, 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
and an Editor of Statistical Science.

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
  Charles Joseph Minard was a French civil engineer noted for his inventions in the field of information graphics.- Biography :...
  
  
• GGobi
  GGobi
  GGobi is a free statistical software tool used for graphing various types of data. GGobi allows extensive exploration of the data with Interactive dynamic graphics. It is also a tool for looking at multivariate data. R can be used in sync with GGobi...
  
  
• Information visualization
  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, library and bibliographic databases, networks of relations on the internet, and so forth".- Overview...
  
  
• Scientific visualization
  Scientific visualization
  Scientific visualization is an interdisciplinary branch of science according to Friendly "primarily concerned with the visualization of three-dimensional phenomena , where the emphasis is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth, perhaps...
  
  

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".

External links

• Home Page
• Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization: An illustrated chronology of innovations by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis.
• The Past, Present and Future of Statistical Graphics a 2004 presentation by Michael Friendly on VIEWS, London, Nov, 2004.