REDDIVARI SAI SARAN

DR P.J MOORE

EAP506

APRIL 4th, 2018

PROFESSOR ANALYSIS
George Mason University is one of the top research university in the United States of America
(USA). Most of the international students show interest to join in George Mason University
because this university is having the best faculty and staff and also provides many opportunities to
the students for doing their research. Each professor, associate professor, assistant professor and
the instructor at the George Mason University have a lot experience in teaching. Daniel Carr is one
the experienced professor in Department of Statistics at the George Mason University.He is an
American professor. He worked for 25 years at George Mason University. He taught a variety of
classes in statistics graphic design and data exploration (George Mason University, n.d.). He
accomplished his BA, Mathematics at Whitman College in 1968. He was a MEd, counseling at
Idaho State University in 1972 and he simultaneously completed his Master’s in Statistics at
Oregon State University. He got Ph.D. in Statistics in 1976 at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He has served as dissertation director for more than 10 graduated PhD students and co-authored
the book “Visualizing Data with Micromaps.” With Linda Pickle in 2010 (George Mason
University, n.d.). He developed techniques and formations for capturing and representing the data
in a visual medium. For getting more efficient data, he uses data visualization techniques and
analysts.

Since I am from Data Analytics Danial carr used to teach us “Applied Statistics and Visualization
for Analytics.” (STAT 515) Which introduces the multivariate regression and random forests for
modeling data by using some software tool like R, Python. He also teaches STAT 663, CSI 773,
and STAT 463 which deals with the statistical graphics and data exploration. Meanwhile, he used
to publish his articles in the journals. His first article was published in 1975 on “The efficiency of
the Product Limit Estimate with Respect to the M.L.E for Geometric Survival Variables and Either
Geometric or Uniform Censoring Variables.” Technical Report no. 404 (George Mason
University, n.d.). From there he used to publish his article every year up to 2002, and he stopped
publishing his articles in journals. Most of his articles were published in Encyclopedia of
Environmentrics, Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology, Statistics In Medicine, Data
Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and
Statistical Computing & Graphics Newsletter.

Daniel Carr published most of his articles in statistics. Mostly he explained how graphs are useful
to the data. By using the graphs how easy we can analyze the data in the education sector, medical
sector, and physical science. In one of his article, he explained how we could compare the graphs
by using some software techniques. “Designing Linked Micromap Plots for States with Many
Countries.” (George Mason University, n.d.) this is his topmost article. This article explains how
two design of linked micro map for showing county estimates on a state by state basis. The linked
micro map was developed to represent statistical summarize. His article on “Statistical Graphics
and Visualization” (George Mason University, n.d.) explains the difference between the statistical
graphics and the information visualization. He also explains some techniques how to reduce huge
data sets into small data sets and that small data sets can be transformed into the graphical
representation which helps in comparing the yearly data in business, hospitals, finance, etc. He
also published his articles in 26th and 27th symposium on the interface of Computing Science and
Statistics Proceeding. He also published his article in the newsletter articles. Here are some topics
that published in the newsletter are boxplots and quantile plots, layering, maps, multivariate,
parallel coordinate plots, the row labeled plots, stereo, and web and metadata (George Mason
University, n.d.).

He presented talks about the visualizing global cluster-compressed atmospheric data,

communication and discovery with interactive 3D rendering, quantitative graphics design
guidelines and communication and discovery using micromaps (George Mason University, n.d.).
He had funded by the University of Texas, National Science Foundation and Office of Naval
Research for his researches on Identification Visualization and Utilization, Curriculum Design in
Data Science, Visual Analytic Tools for Networks and Graphs with Attention Given to Data
Synthesis and Evaluation. Apart from this, his research interest is in Data Mining. As he wrote
only two articles related to the data mining and remaining articles are related to the statistics. He
does not participate in the academic communities, but he participates actively in various
presentations and seminars. He wrote a book on “Visualizing Data Patterns with Micromaps.” This
book explains the three types of micromaps they are linked, conditioned, and comparative
micromaps and also examines data from several areas, such as the health science and the
environmental science.

It would be a great privilege to every student to study under Daniel Carr. Since STAT 515 is one
of the important subject in Data Analytics and his experience will be more helpful to every student
to be successful in STAT 515 and also in his academics. His experience is also helpful in
researching statistics.

References
George Mason University. (n.d.). George Mason University. Retrieved April 04, 2018, from
www.volgenau.gmu.edu: https://volgenau.gmu.edu/profile/view/5091