Antony Unwin

Antony Unwin is a German statistics professor, software developer, and author. Unwin works at the University of Augsburg in Germany, where he is recognized for being the first computer-oriented statistics professor. He is known for his work with R and his contribution of R packages.

Work

Unwin is an author of numerous books and articles on data visualization. He has worked with Andrew Gelman, who is the applied statistics director at Columbia University. In January 2020, Unwin spoke out against the latest AIGA Design Census, saying, "it’s very disappointing. I would expect something better from such an august body." Unwin was the PhD advisor for Heike Hofmann, who is another statistician known for her work on data visualization.

Notable works

Some of Unwin's best-known works include:

Graphics of Large Datasets
Handbook of Data Visualization
Graphical Data Analysis with R

Recognition

Unwin was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007.

Unwin was a judge for the The Statistical Computing and Graphics Award in 2010.

References

"Antony UNWIN - RoSuDa - Lehrstuhl für Rechnerorientierte Statistik und Datenanalyse - Universität Augsburg". www.rosuda.org. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
^ Hickey, Walt. "Stats Legend Andrew Gelman Explains What Makes For Great Charts And Graphs, And How You're Doing It All Wrong". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
^ Kopf, Anne Quito, Dan. "Designers and statisticians disagree on what makes a good information graphic". Quartz. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
^ Unwin, Antony. (2006). Graphics of large datasets : visualizing a million. Theus, Martin., Hofmann, Heike. New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-32906-4. OCLC 209923341.
^ Handbook of data visualization. Chen, Chun-houh., Härdle, Wolfgang., Unwin, Antony. Berlin: Springer. 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-33037-0. OCLC 233973125.
^ Unwin, Antony (25 March 2015). Graphical data analysis with R. Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 978-1-4987-1524-9. OCLC 949422669.
^ "ASA Fellows list". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
https://community.amstat.org/jointscsg-section/awards/computing-graphics-award