William S. Cleveland
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| Born | 1943 (age 82–83) |
| Citizenship | American |
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| Thesis | Time series projections, theory and practice (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leonard Jimmie Savage |
William Swain Cleveland II (born 1943) is an American computer scientist and retired professor of statistics and retired professor of computer science at Purdue University, known for his work on data visualization, particularly on nonparametric regression and local regression. He is one of the developers of the S programming language.