Decision Making/Business Intelligence

Abdishakur Hassan  is a geographic information systems (GIS) expert and consultant with over 5 years of experience working with UN Habitat. He holds an MSc in geoinformation science and earth observations. During his tenure as a GIS expert, Abdishakur has developed fully fledged GIS applications in the urban planning and land administration domains. He is interested in all things related to geospatial data science.

Andrew Berridge  is a data scientist at TIBCO Software Ltd. He has 10 years' experience with TIBCO Spotfire-first as an end user and latterly (for nearly 8 years) as a TIBCO employee. He is a world-renowned Spotfire expert and has assisted with selling Spotfire and implementing it for many customers. He has also developed parts of the latest versions of Spotfire, being on the team that implemented the AI-Driven Recommendations feature in Spotfire X. Prior to his role at TIBCO, Andrew was an internal consultant at one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.

Edward L. Platt  creates technology for communities and communities for technology. He is currently a researcher at the University of Michigan School of Information and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. He has published research on large-scale collective action, social networks, and online communities. He was formerly a staff researcher at the MIT Center for Civic Media. He contributes to many free/open source software projects, including tools for media analysis, network science, and cooperative organizations.

Sudharsan Ravichandiran  is a data scientist, researcher, artificial intelligence enthusiast, and YouTuber (search for Sudharsan reinforcement learning). He completed his bachelors in information technology at Anna University. His area of research focuses on practical implementations of deep learning and reinforcement learning, which includes natural language processing and computer vision. He used to be a freelance web developer and designer and has designed award-winning websites. He is an open source contributor and loves answering questions on Stack Overflow.

Francisco Juretig has worked for over a decade in a variety of industries such as retail, gambling and finance deploying data-science solutions. He has written several R packages, and is a frequent contributor to the open source community.

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Cindi Howson is the founder of BIScorecard, a website for in-depth BI product reviews and has 20 years of BI and management reporting experience.