Jeff Heaton is an Informatics Scientist programmer specializing in Java, C#, Groovy, Scala, C/C++, SQL, R, and Octave. He is an active technology blogger, open source contributor, and author of more than ten books. His areas of expertise include Data Science, Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Big Data, Business Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence. Jeff holds a Master's Degree in Information Management from Washington University and is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Sun Certified Java Programmer, the lead developer for the Encog Machine Learning Framework open source project, and an Assoc...