Dianne Cook and Ursula Laa have jointly published numerous papers on methodology for high-dimensional data visualisation in the past decade. This book is a result of these collaborations. Dianne Cook has been researching methods for data visualisation, particularly for exploratory data analysis, and data mining, for more than 30 years.

She is a Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Monash University, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, past editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, and the R Journal, Board Member of the R Foundation, and elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and author of numerous R packages. Ursula Laa is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Statistics of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. She works on new methods for the visualisation of multivariate data and models, and on interdisciplinary applications of statistics and data science methods in different fields.