About the Author
Sinan Ozdemir is a data scientist, startup founder, and educator living in the San
Francisco Bay Area with his dog, Charlie; cat, Euclid; and bearded dragon, Fiero. He
spent his academic career studying pure mathematics at Johns Hopkins University
before transitioning to education. He spent several years conducting lectures on data
science at Johns Hopkins University and at the General Assembly before founding
his own start-up, Legion Analytics, which uses articial intelligence and data science
to power enterprise sales teams.
After completing the Fellowship at the Y Combinator accelerator, Sinan has spent
most of his days working on his fast-growing company, while creating educational
material for data science.
I would like to thank my parents and my sister for supporting me
through life, and also, my various mentors, including Dr. Pam Sheff
of Johns Hopkins University and Nathan Neal, the chapter adviser of
my collegiate leadership fraternity, Sigma Chi.
Thank you to Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity to
share the principles of data science and my excitement for how this
eld will impact all of our lives in the coming years.
