Biography:Deborah F. Swayne

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Short description: American statistician

Deborah F. Swayne is an American statistician who worked for AT&T Labs and chaired the Section on Statistical Graphics of the American Statistical Association. She is known for her work as coauthor of GGobi, a software tool for interactive data visualization,[1] and is president of the GGobi Foundation.[2] She retired in 2016.[3]

With Dianne Cook, she is the author of Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: With R and GGobi (Springer, 2007).[4]

In 2005, Swayne was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association, "for influential contributions in statistical graphics methods; for the creation of advanced graphical software; and for exemplary service to the profession."[5]

References

  1. Segaran, Toby; Hammerbacher, Jeff (2009), Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions, O'Reilly Media, p. 354, ISBN 9781449379292, https://books.google.com/books?id=zxNglqU1FKgC&pg=PA354 
  2. GGobi Foundation, http://www.ggobi.org/foundation/, retrieved 2017-10-26 
  3. The Bellcore Applied Research Area Alumni Home Page, http://www.panix.com/~dfs/bellcore/Alumni.php, retrieved 2017-10-26 
  4. Reviews of Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: John W. Emerson (November 2008), Biometrics 64 (4): 1301–1303, doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01138_4.x, JSTOR 25502220; John H. Maindonald (December 2008), International Statistical Review 76 (3): 437–438, doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2008.00062_2.x; Eugenia Stoimenova (2009), Statistical Methods in Medical Research 18 (2): 223–224, doi:10.1177/0962280209104777; Pedro M. Valero-Mora (2009), Journal of Statistical Software 30, Book Review 7, doi:10.18637/jss.v030.b07.
  5. Gunst, Richard A. (2005), "ASA Fellows", Plenary Awards presented at the 165th meeting of the American Statistical Association, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics (American Statistical Association), https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2005/blocks/Awards.pdf, retrieved 2017-10-26