Category: about/contributors/

Tamara Dull, SAS Institute

Tamara Dull is the Director of Emerging Technologies for SAS Best Practices, a thought leadership organization at SAS Institute. Through engaging publications, rich media, and industry engagements, she delivers a pragmatic perspective on topics...

John McAuley, Novartis.

John McAuley, visualization manager at Novartis. John has over 15 years experience in software and product development at both academic and industry level. He has consulted for many small to medium companies, building both...

Abe Gong, Metta

Abe Gong, CEO and cofounder of Metta Abe Gong is a thought leader on the intersection of data science, behavior change, and the Internet of Things. Prior to co-founding Metta, he was the first...

Dr. Con Menictas

Con Menictas PhD, Senior Statistician Con has been in market research for over 30 years and has been on client and supplier side of market research and an academic. Con is a registered statistician...

Nauman Sheikh, consultant

Nauman Sheikh is a specialist in data and business analytics with core focus on intelligent applications for risk management, big data, consumer analytics and innovative use of predictive modeling in unconventional areas like education,...

Eddie A. Tejeda, Civic Insight

Eddie A. Tejeda, Co-founder, CEO at Civic Insight. I am the CEO/Co-Founder of Civic Insight, a civic tech startup focused on making municipal property information available to the public in real-time. I have 10...

Reynold Xin, Databricks

Reynold Xin is a co-founder of Databricks and a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of Apache Spark. He has been instrumental in the design and implementation of Spark and its various components. He led...

Stephen Dillon

Stephen Dillon has over 18 years of experience working with data engineering and database technologies. Stephen’s focus is on Data architecture and the Cloud including the practice and research of storage, distributed data, NoSQL,...

Jay Kreps, Confluent

Jay Kreps is the CEO of Confluent a start-up focused on real-time data and Apache Kafka. He is among the original authors of several open source projects including a distributed key-value store called Project...