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About the author

Joshua Eckroth is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stetson University, where he teaches AI, big data mining and analytics, and software engineering. He earned his PhD from The Ohio State University in AI and Cognitive Science. Dr. Eckroth also serves as Chief Architect at i2k Connect, which focuses on transforming documents into structured data using AI and enriched with subject matter expertise.

Dr. Eckroth has previously published two video series with Packt, Python Artificial Intelligence Projects for Beginners and Advanced Artificial Intelligence Projects with Python. His academic publications can be found on Google Scholar.

"I wish to express my gratitude to Dr. Eric Schoen, Director of Engineering at i2k Connect, for taking the time to carefully review each chapter. The rest of my colleagues at i2k Connect also gave me important feedback and new ideas along the way. I also wish to thank my wife for her encouragement and patience in a process that always seems to take longer than expected."