About the author

Nataraj Dasgupta is the vice president of Advanced Analytics at RxDataScience Inc. Nataraj has been in the IT industry for more than 19 years and has worked in the technical and analytics pisions of Philip Morris, IBM, UBS Investment Bank and Purdue Pharma. He led the data science pision at Purdue Pharma L.P. where he developed the company’s award-winning big data and machine learning platform. Prior to Purdue, at UBS, he held the role of associate director working with high frequency and algorithmic trading technologies in the Foreign Exchange trading pision of the bank.

I'd like to thank my wife, Suraiya, for her caring, support, and understanding as I worked during long weekends and evening hours and to my parents, in-laws, sister and grandmother for all the support, guidance, tutelage and encouragement over the years.

I'd also like to thank Packt, especially the editors, Tejas, Dinesh, Vinay, and the team whose persistence and attention to detail has been exemplary.