Jake VanderPlas is a data science fellow at the University of Washington eScience Institute, where his work focuses on data-intensive physical science research in an interdisciplinary setting. In the Python world, Jake is active in maintaining and/or contributing to several well-known Python scientific computing packages, including Scikit-learn, Scipy, Matplotlib, mpld3, and others. He occasionally blogs on python-related topics at http://jakevdp.github.io.