Brett Lantz Author

Brett Lantz has spent the past 10 years using innovative data methods to understand human behavior. A sociologist by training, he was fi rst enchanted by machine learning while studying a large database of teenagers' social networking website profi les. Since then, he has worked on interdisciplinary studies of cellular telephone calls, medical billing data, and philanthropic activity, among others. When he's not spending time with family, following college sports, or being entertained by his dachshunds, he maintains dataspelunking.com, a website dedicated to sharing knowledge about the search for insight in data.