About the Reviewers

Richard Marsden has over twenty years of professional experience in software development. After starting in the fields of geophysics and oil exploration, he has spent the last twelve years running the Winwaed Software Technology LLC, an independent software vendor. Winwaed specializes in geospatial tools and applications, which include web applications, and operates the http://www.mapping-tools.com website for tools and add-ins for geospatial products, such as Caliper's Maptitude and Microsoft's MapPoint.

Richard was also a technical reviewer for Python Geospatial Development, and Python Geospatial Analysis Essentials, both written by Erik Westra, Packt Publishing.

Puneet Narula is currently working as PPC Data Analyst with Hostelworld.com Ltd (http://www.hostelworld.com/), Dublin, Ireland, where he analyzes massive clickstream data from direct and affiliate sources and provides insight to the digital marketing team. He uses RapidMiner, R, and Python for the exploratory and predictive analysis. His areas of expertise are programming in Python and R, machine learning, data analysis and Tableau.

He started his career in banking and finance and then moved to the ever growing domain of data and analytics.

He earned MSc in computing (data analytics) from Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland. He has reviewed the books: Python Data Analysis, by Ivan Idris, Packt Publishing and Python Geospatial Analysis Essentials, by Erik Westra, Packt Publishing.

Yves Vandermeer is a police officer working for the Belgian Federal Police. He has been involved in major investigations since 1997, where he contributed to recovering digital evidence. Owning a MSc in computer forensics, Yves is also a trainer on several topics such as filesystems and network forensics for several law enforcement agencies.

Chairing the European Cybercrime Training and Education Group, E.C.T.E.G., since 2013, Yves supports the creation of training materials that are focused on the understanding of the concepts applied in practical exercises.

Using his experience, he developed forensic software tools for law enforcement and contributed to several advisory groups related to IT crime and IT forensics.