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About the author

David Taieb is the Distinguished Engineer for the Watson and Cloud Platform Developer Advocacy team at IBM, leading a team of avid technologists on a mission to educate developers on the art of the possible with data science, AI and cloud technologies. He's passionate about building open source tools, such as the PixieDust Python Library for Jupyter Notebooks, which help improve developer productivity and democratize data science. David enjoys sharing his experience by speaking at conferences and meetups, where he likes to meet as many people as possible.

I want to give special thanks to all of the following dear friends at IBM who contributed to the development of PixieDust and/or provided invaluable support during the writing of this book: Brad Noble, Jose Barbosa, Mark Watson, Raj Singh, Mike Broberg, Jessica Mantaro, Margriet Groenendijk, Patrick Titzler, Glynn Bird, Teri Chadbourne, Bradley Holt, Adam Cox, Jamie Jennings, Terry Antony, Stephen Badolato, Terri Gerber, Peter May, Brady Paterson, Kathleen Francis, Dan O'Connor, Muhtar (Burak) Akbulut, Navneet Rao, Panos Karagiannis, Allen Dean, and Jim Young.