Edwin de Jonge is a statistical consultant (methodologist) at Statistics Netherlands, which is the office that produces all official statistics of the Netherlands (census, labor force, environmental etc). He is consulted on data visualization, big data, clustering and R programming problems.
Having a background in theoretical and computational physics he has a research interest in computational statistics, including numerical methods. Edwin is (co)author of several R software packages on data cleaning, large data sets and visualization (editrules, deducorrect, tabplotd3, ffbase and whisker) and has authored a book on using RStudio.
Currently he is co-authoring a book for Wiley "Data cleaning with applications in R". He is an experienced R trainer.
His main research focuses on using visualization methods for exploratory data analysis including visualization of uncertainty and semantic technologies. Recent projects include:
- StatMine, visual exploration of output-data
- Visualisation techniques for Big Data
- Datacleaning algorithms
- Processing and analyzing Big data.