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Biography
Ajay Ohri is a data scientist and prominent blogger in open source data science. Since 2007 he has published his blog DecisionStats.com. He is the author of two books on R.
Education
Ohri graduated from Delhi College of Engineering with a B.E in Mechanical Engineering, and has a MBA from Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. In addition he did graduate courses at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Books
In 2012 he wrote R for Business Analytics for Springer Publishing. The book is being translated into Chinese by Xi’an Jiaotong University Press. In 2014 he wrote R for Cloud Computing: An Approach for Data Scientists for Springer Publishing.
In addition to technology books, Ohri has authored four books on poetry. Unlike his technology books, Ohri's poetry books are self published. They are
- "R for Cloud Computing | Matloff | Journal of Statistical Software". Retrieved 2016-01-13.
Articles
Ajay Ohri began writing articles starting from CoolAvenues. He also wrote many articles for AnalyticsTraining.com .
He has written around 50 articles for ProgrammableWeb and many articles for KDNuggets. Besides this, he has been cited by Wired Magazine and ReadWriteWeb for espousing a marketplace for algorithms.
Ohri has also written on using Big Data for Developing countries for IBM Big Data Magazine. He advocates a pragmatic approach to open source software including better customer service, documentation and interface. Ohri has also written tutorials in both Python and R.
His latest position is using multiple languages or polyglotism in open source analytics.
How to be a better writer
His article "How to be a Better Writer" has become popular on Tumblr and Quora.
Interviews
An early technology writer in data science, he has interviewed John Sall, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro,Jan De Leeuw, Hadley Wickham, Hilary Mason,Usama Fayyad and Stephen L. Baker among others.
Ajay Ohri has given interviews at multiple forums.