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The Computing and Graphics Newsletter is distributed to members of the Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Sections of the ASA. Their annual dues assist section activities. If you are an ASA member, but do not belong to either of these Sections, please consider joining. If you are not an ASA member, but find the articles in the Newsletter interesting, you might want to give our organization a look.

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The Newsletter is produced by two volunteer editors, one from each of the Computing and Graphics Sections, with articles from both ASA members and non-members. Our current editors are Michael O'Connell (Computing) and Andreas Krause (Graphics). We are eager to hear both from people who receive the Newsletter regularly as well as interested visitors who have examined our site. Consider giving us feedback about how we can improve this service.

Online Issues

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Volume 19, Number 1. July 2008

Featured articles:

Statistical graphics in the wind industry
by Mark A. Fisher

How to draw a trilinear plot
by Mu Zhu. (S+/R code)

New section on technology and commerce.

Volume 18, Number 2. December 2007

Featured articles:

KorBell and Netflix
by Robert Bell, Yehuda Koren, and Chris Volinsky

Grid Computing: Rockefeller
by Tingting Song, Cameron Coffran, Knut M. Wittkowski

Population Evolution
by Joachim Moecks and Walter Koehler

Volume 18, Number 1. June 2007

Featured articles:

Computing Thousands of Test Statistics Simultaneously in R
by Holger Schwender and Tina Müller

Generalized Nonlinear Models in R
by Heather L. Turner and David Firth

BMDP and Some Statistical Computing History
by Robert Jennrich

Volume 17, Number 2. November 2006

Featured articles:

Color Coding and Color Blindness in Statistical Graphics
by Thomas Lumley

Tools for Bayesian Analysis in R
by Jouni Kerman and Andrew Gelman

An Experience between Dusty Archives and Blogs
by Heike Hoffman, Dianne Cook, and Charles Kostelnick

About Glyphs and Small Multiples: Gauguin and the Expo
by Alexander Gribov, Antony Unwin, Heike Hofmann

Volume 17, Number 1. June 2006

Featured articles:

Some Majorization Techniques
by Jan de Leeuw

RGTK2 - A GUI Toolkit for R
by Michael Lawrence and Duncan Temple Lang

SOCR: Statistics Online Computational Resource
by Ivo D. Dinov

Volume 16, Number 2. December 2005

Featured articles include:

Reshaping Data
by Hadley Wickham

JGR: Java GUI for R
by Markus Helbig, Martin Theus, and Simon Urbanek

Volume 16, Number 1. Summer 2005

Featured articles include:

Expanding your statistical computing toolbox with Python
by Brooke Fridley, Rhonda DeCook, and Howard Butler

Using pdfscreen for interactive presentations
by Di Cook

Past issues

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