About the Author

Buddy James a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer from the Nashville, Tennessee area. He is a software engineer, an author, a blogger (www.refactorthis.net), a mentor, a thought leader, a technologist, a data scientist, and a husband. He enjoys working with design patterns, data mining, C#, WPF, Silverlight, WinRT, XAML, ASP.NET, Python, CouchDB, RavenDB, Hadoop, Android (MonoDroid), iOS (MonoTouch), and machine learning. He loves technology and loves to develop software, collect data, analyze the data, and learn from the data. When he is not coding, he's determined to make a difference in the world by using data and machine learning techniques. You can follow him on Twitter at @budbjames.