Jake VanderPlas

Jake VanderPlas is a software engineer at Google Research, working on tools that support data-intensive research. He maintains a technical blog, Pythonic Perambulations, to share tutorials and opinions related to statistics, open software, and scientific computing in Python. He creates and develops Python tools for use in data-intensive science, including packages like Scikit-Learn, SciPy, AstroPy, Altair, JAX, and many others. He participates in the broader data science community, developing and presenting talks and tutorials on scientific computing topics at various conferences in the data science world.