Michael Friendly
Photo mosaic of Michael Friendly, composed of image tiles from the history of data visualization
Born (1945-05-07) May 7, 1945 (age 78)
New York City, New York
CitizenshipCanadian, American
Alma materRensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BS)
Princeton University (MS, PhD)
Known formosaic plot
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, data visualization, statistics
InstitutionsYork University, Toronto
Doctoral advisorHarold Gulliksen

Michael Louis Friendly (born 1945) is an American-Canadian psychologist, Professor of Psychology at York University in Ontario, Canada, and director of its Statistical Consulting Service, especially known for his contributions to graphical methods for categorical and multivariate data, and on the history of data and information visualisation.[1][2]

Biography

Born in New York City, Friendly obtained his BS in 1966 from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his MS in 1969 from Princeton University. In 1971/2 he also obtained his PhD in psychology at Princeton under supervision of Harold Gulliksen and Peter Ornstein, with the thesis titled "Proximity Analysis and the Structure of Organization in Free Recall."[3][4]

Friendly's first research project in the field of psychometrics and cognitive psychology had started at the Educational Testing Service and Princeton University, and was made possible by a Psychometric Fellowship awarded by the Educational Testing Service. After graduation Friendly jointed the Department of Psychology at the York University in Ontario, Canada, where he continued his research. At the York University he was appointed Associate Professor and later on Professor of Psychology, and since 1985 also director of its Statistical Consulting Service.

Friendly is Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and an Editor of Statistical Science. In 2018 he became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5]

Work

Friendly's research interests have developed over years. It started in the 1970s with the application of quantitative and computer methods to problems in cognitive psychology, including the cognitive aspects of extracting information from graphical displays.[6] In the 1990s Friendly started focussing on the history of statistics and data visualization, and furthermore graphical methods for data and information visualization.[7]

Publications

Books

Selected articles and reports

References

  1. ^ Young, Forrest W.; Valero-Mora, Pedro M.; Friendly, Michael (2011). Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamic Interactive Graphics. Wiley. Archived from the original on September 17, 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  2. ^ Rosenberg, Daniel, and Anthony Grafton. Cartographies of time: A history of the timeline. Princeton Architectural Press, 2013.
  3. ^ Friendly, Michael L. "Proximity Analysis and the Structure of Organization in Free Recall. Archived March 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine" (1972).
  4. ^ Michael Friendly at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ ASA Fellows List, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on December 1, 2017, retrieved August 7, 2018
  6. ^ SAS System for Statistical Graphics, First Edition, 1st edition ABSTRACT From the Publisher. Retrieved 07 July 2008.
  7. ^ Profiles of Faculty Members in the History and Theory of Psychology Area Archived May 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Department of Psychology. York University. Retrieved 07 July 2008.
  8. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). October 29, 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 26, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2008.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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