Deborah F. Swayne (born 6 January 1952) is an American statistician who worked for

AT&T Labs AT&T Labs is the research & development division of AT&T, the telecommunications company. It employs some 1,800 people in various locations, including: Bedminster NJ; Middletown, NJ; Manhattan, NY; Warrenville, IL; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Atla ...

and chaired the Section on Statistical Graphics of the

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuous ...

. She is known for her work as coauthor of

GGobi GGobi is a free statistical software tool for interactive data visualization. GGobi allows extensive exploration of the data with Interactive dynamic graphics. It is also a tool for looking at multivariate data. R can be used in sync with ...

, a software tool for

interactive data visualization Data and information visualization (data viz or info viz) is an interdisciplinary field that deals with the graphic representation of data and information. It is a particularly efficient way of communicating when the data or information is nume ...

, and is president of the GGobi Foundation. She retired in 2016. With Dianne Cook, she is the author of ''Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: With R and GGobi'' (Springer, 2007). In 2005, Swayne was elected as a

fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

, "for influential contributions in statistical graphics methods; for the creation of advanced graphical software; and for exemplary service to the profession."

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Living people American women statisticians Fellows of the American Statistical Association 1952 births 21st-century American women {{US-mathematician-stub