title: Data Scientists at Work
author:  Sebastian Gutierrez 
description: Sebastian Gutierrez is a data entrepreneur who has founded three data-related companies: DataYou (data science and data visualization consulting and education), LetsWombat (data-driven product sampling), and Acheevmo (athletic performance statistics). He was formerly an emerging markets risk manager at Scotia Capital and an FX options trader at JP Morgan and Standard Chartered Bank.Gutierrez provides training in data visualization and D3.js to a diverse client base, including corporations such as the New York Stock Exchange, the American Express Company, and General Dynamics, universities, media agencies, and startups. He leads the 1,600-member New York City D3.js Meetup Group and is co-editor of Data Science Weekly, a weekly newsletter providing curated articles and videos on the latest developments in data science. He is a frequent speaker at meetups and conferences, such as Strata and Hadoop World in New York and Barcelona. He is a cross-disciplinary instructor at General Assembly. Gutierrez holds a BS in Mathematics from MIT and an MA in Economics from the University of San Francisco.
zlib_text: Acknowledgments
  I am very grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book possible:
  The MIT Press: Doug Sery, senior acquisitions editor, Noah Springer, assistant acqui-
  sitions editor, Kathleen Caruso, manuscript editor, and Melinda Rankin, copyeditor.
  Larry Star, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Informa-
  tion Technology (Calit2), Ramesh Rao, director of the UCSD Division of Calit2, and 
  all the staff at Calit2, which has been supporting the work of our lab since its start  
  in 2007.
  Noah Wardrip- Fruin, who cofounded Software Studies Initiative (later renamed Cul-
  tural Analytics Lab) with me in 2007. Sheldon Brown, who invited us to the Center for 
  Research in Computing and the Arts, which became our lab’s home from 2008 to 2012. 
  Mathew Gold who supported my work at The Graduate Center, CUNY, after I started 
  teaching there in 2013.
  Lab members, 2007– 2018: Jeremy Douglass, William Huber, Tara Zepel, Cicero Ina-
  cio da Silva, Jay Chow,