Tarek Amr achieved his postgraduate degree in Data Mining and Information Retrieval from the University of East Anglia. He has about 10 years' experience in Software Development. He has been volunteering in Global Voices Online (GVO) since 2007, and currently he is the local ambassador of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) in Egypt. Words such as Open Data, Government 2.0, Data Visualisation, Data Journalism, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing are like music to his ears.
Tarek's Twitter handle is @gr33ndata and his homepage is http://tarekamr.appspot.com/.
Jayesh K. Gupta is the Lead Developer of Matlab Toolbox for Biclustering Analysis (MTBA). He is currently an undergraduate student and researcher at IIT Kanpur. His interests lie in the field of pattern recognition. His interests also lie in basic sciences, recognizing them as the means of analyzing patterns in nature. Coming to IIT, he realized how this analysis is being augmented by Machine Learning algorithms with various diverse applications. He believes that augmenting human thought with machine intelligence is one of the best ways to advance human knowledge. He is a long time technophile and a free-software Evangelist. He usually goes by the handle, rejuvyesh online. He is also an avid reader and his books can be checked out at Goodreads. Checkout his projects at Bitbucket and GitHub. For all links visit http://home.iitk.ac.in/~jayeshkg/. He can be contacted at <[email protected]>.
Kostiantyn Kucher was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He received his Master's degree in Computer Science from Odessa National Polytechnic University in 2012. He used Python as well as Matplotlib and PIL for Machine Learning and Image Recognition purposes.
Currently, Kostiantyn is a PhD student in Computer Science specializing in Information Visualization. He conducts his research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren with the ISOVIS group at the Computer Science Department of Linnaeus University (Växjö, Sweden).
Kenneth Emeka Odoh performs research on state of the art Data Visualization techniques. His research interest includes exploratory search where the users are guided to their search results using visual clues.
Kenneth is proficient in Python programming. He has presented a Python conference talk at Pycon, Finland in 2012 where he spoke about Data Visualization in Django to a packed audience.
He currently works as a Graduate Researcher at the University of Regina, Canada. He is a polyglot with experience in developing applications in C, C++, Python, and Java programming languages.
When Kenneth is not writing source codes, you can find him singing at the Campion College chant choir.