About the Author
Betsy Page Sigman is a distinguished professor at the McDonough School of
Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has taught courses in
statistics, project management, databases, and electronic commerce for the last 16
years, and has been recognized with awards for teaching and service. Before arriving
at Georgetown, she worked at George Mason University, the U.S. Bureau of the
Census, Decision/Making/Information, the American Enterprise Institute, and the
Social Science Data Center (now Roper Center) at the University of Connecticut.
Recent publications include a Harvard Business case study and a Harvard Business
review article, articles in the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and
Decision Line, and a case study in Educause Review Online. Additionally, she is a
frequent media commentator on technological issues and big data.
A big thank you to Richard Harvey, Mohammed Fahad, Utkarsha
S. Kadam and the other editors and staff at Packt Publishing for
your help in every step along the way to nishing this book. Thanks
also to my colleagues and students at the McDonough School of
Business at Georgetown University. Thanks especially to Bill Garr,
Rob Pongsajapan, Marie Selvanandin, and Kristin Bolling, and the
Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS),
for exploring the exciting world of big data and Splunk together.
It has been a wonderful place to learn, grow, and serve for the last
16 years. I need to thank my brothers, Tim and Rick Page, for being
there to challenge and encourage me throughout my life. Most of
all, I want to thank my brilliant and wonderful husband, Chuck, my
astonishing daughter and son-in-law, Page and Daniel Thies, and my
three sons. Johnny, thanks for always inspiring me technologically;
Richard, thanks for your sense of humor that keeps us all laughing;
and James, thanks for always being there for all of us. Edward, the
grandson who lights up all our lives, is too young to read this now.
He was born into an extraordinary world—one that I hope and pray
technology will continue to improve.
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