Bio:

Dean Abbott is Chief Data Scientist for Appriss Retail. He is an internationally recognized innovator in data science and machine learning with nearly four decades of experience solving problems in a wide range of applications. He is often included in lists of the most influential data scientists in the world, is author of Applied Predictive Analytics (2014) and a popular keynote speaker and instructor. He holds a BS in computational mathematics and a master’s in applied mathematics from UVA.