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About the Author

Ashish Kumar has a B. Tech from IIT Madras and is a Young India Fellow from the batch of 2012-13. He is a data science enthusiast with extensive work experience in the field. As a part of his work experience, he has worked with tools such as Python, R, and SAS. He has also implemented predictive algorithms to glean actionable insights for clients from the transport and logistics, online payment, and healthcare industries. Apart from the data sciences, he is enthused by and adept at financial modeling and operational research. He is a prolific writer and has authored several online articles and short stories apart from running his own analytics blog. He also works pro-bono for a couple of social enterprises and freelances his data science skills. His twitter handle is @asis64 Joseph Babcock has spent almost a decade exploring complex datasets and combining predictive modeling with visualization to understand correlations and forecast anticipated outcomes. He received a PhD from the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he used machine learning to predict adverse side-effects of cardiac drugs. Outside the academy, he has tackled big data challenges in the healthcare and entertainment industries.