About the Author

Jay Gendron is an associate data scientist working with Booz Allen Hamilton. He has worked in the fields of machine learning, data analysis, and statistics for over a decade, and believes that good questions and compelling visualization make analytics accessible to decision makers. Jay is a business leader, entrepreneurial employee, artist, and author. He has a B.S.M.E. in mechanical engineering, an M.S. in management of technology, an M.S. in operations research, and graduate certificates for chief information officer and IT program management.

Jay is a lifelong learner—a member of the first cohort to earn the 10-course specialization in data science by Johns Hopkins University on Coursera. He is an award-winning speaker who has presented internationally and provides pro bono data science expertise to numerous not-for-profit organizations to improve their operational insights. Connect with Jay Gendron at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaygendron,  visit http://jgendron.github.io/, or Twitter @jaygendron.