Deborah F. Swayne

Deborah F. Swayne (born 6 January 1952) 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]