Koen Plevoets is the coordinator of the Master in Statistical Data Analysis and a research consultant at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, both at Ghent University. His research focusses on the cognitive load of interpreters. He obtained his PhD in linguistics in 2008 and he has specialized master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence and in Statistics. He has over 15 years of experience in categorical data analysis, multivariate statistics and text mining. His interests are visualizations of complex data, for which he uses the open-source programming languages R and Python.