Robert Ball Author, Illustrator & Editor

​Robert Ball has devoted a significant amount of his adult years thinking about data. From visualizing data on 100-monitor displays, exploring migration patterns, to understanding the provenance and evolution of data through time, he has explored data expressed in many usages and forms. Dr. Ball both teaches and works with the private sector, public sector, and government in various projects and capacities. However, no matter the origin of the data, the ultimate question almost universally that needs to be answered is what insight can be discovered in the data?

Brian Rague joined the School of Computing faculty at Weber State University in 2003 after working on various data science and engineering research projects throughout his early career at MIT, Caltech, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has consulted with industry partners on how to effectively leverage the ongoing deluge of available data for both operations and research purposes.  His areas of interest emphasize the platforms and technologies that wrangle and process data, such as machine learning, parallel computing, and distributed systems.