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Dr. P.J. Moore

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11-01-2016
Professor Research
Daniel Carr is the professor who focus on Statistics has been worked at George Mason University for
25 years. He is a very technical professor with some valuable degrees, has acquired BA of Mathematics at
Whitman College in 1968; MEd of Counselling at Idaho Statistics University in 1972; MS of Statistics at
Oregon State University in 1972; and PhD of Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976. During
his 25 years working lifetime, in order to have a better way on catching numerous data from visual
medium, Daniel Carr has already developed a large number of techniques and formations on it. (Carr,
2016)Moreover, he improved development in statistical graphics at Federal Agencies and made statistics
graphic and visual analytics effectively, and teach some classes of statistic graphics: STAT463, STAT515,
StAT663/CSI773, STAT763. (Carr, Daniel Carr, 2016)
Daniel Carr has already published so many academic research on different journals, such as
Statistics in Medicine; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Journal of Computational and Graphical
Statistics; Proceeding of the National Academy of Science; Statistical Computing & Graphics Newsletter;
Archives of Neurology; Environmental Science and Technology; American statistical Association 1980
Proc. Of Statistical Computing Section; Proceedings of the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society;
Proceedings of the 1980 DOE Statistical Symposium; and so on. (Carr, LIST OF OPEN PUBLICATIONS,
2016)
Most of academic articles that Daniel Carr has been published focus on the application of statistical
for optimizing data analysis in various ways. Such as the A Colorful Variation On Box Plots is one of the
articles, it is a research paper about a data that is showed by Box Plots. Box Plots is wildly used in many
fields, figure out the hidden valuable information from it is necessary. So author used the distributional
features to find out its deeper information. In addition, after do some research, author thought there still
some room can improve for the availability of color and variations with the history of black and white
methods. Then, author designed objectives with 21 males and 21 females compare by gender for the Box
Plot to support his opinion. With the research, most of plot can be improved, however, there still some
rare plots were special, it cannot be improved. (Daniel, 1994) The another article Scanning a 4-D Domain
for Local Minima: A protein Folding Application was finding out some statistical graphics methods
about application on wild range. Author used the protein molecule as the data to research because of the
protein foldings special shape, then, used statistical method try to describe the mysterious energy

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11-01-2016
landscape of protein molecule. At first, author used gray background instead of black and white
background to lower contrast and make it easy to understand. The second was find out a solution with
the problem about the energy surface of visualization at 4 dimensions and chose ray angle to describe
energy was the best way in this research. Finally, created COPLOT legend with data, and it was easy to
find that the energy minimum at the edge domain, and have a second minimum energy. It was hard to
describe energy with mathematical mode, because there were many outside elements influent molecules.
(Daniel, Scanning a 4-D Domain for Local Minima: A Protein Folding Application, 1995)
Daniel Carr is interested in four main Areas of research: Statistical graphics; Knowledge
visualization; Data exploration; and Analysis of massive data sets. (Daniel, Department of Statistics, 2006)
After I read some of his papers, most of them are focus on the advancement of statistical research and
application. He likes to create his own way to simplify the process of utilization and do many deeper
research about statistical computing and graphics to explore unknown knowledge.
The professor has abundant academic research experiences in his life. In 2010, he published a book
with Linda pickle called Visualizing Data Patterns with Micromaps. Besides, he took part in design and
provide technical support on new Graphics software tools; worked for developing new statistical graphics
with 1.3M funded; taught 5 different statistical graphics class at George Mason University; and used to
guide 10 Ph.D. students. (Carr, Daniel Carr, 2016)His professional academic writing, organization, and
thinking can improve my academic writing skill. Furthermore, it is a useful way to open my mind, and
create a new view on my field.

Bibliography
Carr, D. (2016). Daniel Carr. Retrieved from Linked in:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-carr-42087613/zh-cn
Carr, D. (2016). LIST OF OPEN PUBLICATIONS. Retrieved from Volgenau
School of Engineering: http://mason.gmu.edu/~dcarr/lib/paperhtm.html
Carr, D. (2016). Volgenau School of Engineering. Retrieved from GEORGE
MASON UNIVERSITY: https://volgenau.gmu.edu/profile/view/5091

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EAP-506-P06
11-01-2016
Daniel, B. C. (1994). A Colorful Variation On Box Plots. Statiscal Computing &
Statistical Graphics Newsletter, 19-23.
Daniel, B. C. (1995). Scanning a 4-D Domain for Local Minima: A Protein
Folding Application. Statistical Computing & Statistical Graphics
Newsletter, 9-12.
Daniel, B. C. (2006). Department of Statistics. Retrieved from George Mason
Univeristy: http://statistics.gmu.edu/people_pages/carr.html