William Swain Cleveland II (born 1943) is an American computer scientist and Professor of Statistics and Professor of Computer Science at

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, known for his work on

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 num ...

, particularly on

nonparametric regression Nonparametric regression is a category of regression analysis in which the predictor does not take a predetermined form but is constructed according to information derived from the data. That is, no parametric form is assumed for the relationship ...

and

local regression Local regression or local polynomial regression, also known as moving regression, is a generalization of the moving average and polynomial regression. Its most common methods, initially developed for scatterplot smoothing, are LOESS (locally es ...

Biography

Cleveland obtained his AB in Mathematics mid 1960s from Princeton University, where he graduated under

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. For his PhD studies in Statistics he moved to Yale University, where he graduated in 1969 under

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. After graduation Cleveland started at

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, where he was staff member of the Statistics Research Department and Department Head for 12 years. Eventually he moved to the Purdue University, where he became Professor of Statistics and Courtesy Professor of Computer Science. In 1982 he was elected as a

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. His research interests are in the fields of "data visualization, computer networking,

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

, data mining, time series, statistical modeling, visual perception, environmental science, and seasonal adjustment." Cleveland is credited with defining and naming the field of

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a br ...

, which he did in a 2001 publication.

Selected publications

* Cleveland, William S. ''The elements of graphing data.'' Monterey, CA: Wadsworth Advanced Books and Software, 1985. * Cleveland, William S. ''Visualizing data.'' Hobart Press, 1993. Articles, a selection:William S. Cleveland
Google scholar profile. * Cleveland, William S.
Robust locally weighted regression and smoothing scatterplots
" Journal of the American statistical association 74.368 (1979): 829–836. * Cleveland, William S., and Robert McGill.
Graphical perception: Theory, experimentation, and application to the development of graphical methods
" ''Journal of the American statistical association'' 79.387 (1984): 531–554. * Cleveland, William S., and

Susan J. Devlin Susan J. Devlin is an American statistician who has contributed to highly-cited research on robust statistics and local regression. Education and career Devlin earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Will ...

. "Locally weighted regression: an approach to regression analysis by local fitting." Journal of the American Statistical Association 83.403 (1988): 596–610. * Cleveland, William S., Eric Grosse, and William M. Shyu. "Local regression models." Statistical models in S (1992): 309–376.

References

External links

William S. Cleveland, Shanti S. Gupta Professor of Statistics, Courtesy Professor of Computer Science

William Cleveland
at the

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