About the reviewers

Valeriy Babushkin is the director of Data Science at X5 Retail Group, where he leads a team of 80+ people in the area of natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, data analysis, and A/B testing. Valeriy is a Kaggle competition grand master, ranking globally in the top 30, and also leads a data science team at Yandex. He studied cybernetics in Moscow Polytechnical University and mechatronics at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences and worked with Packt as an author of the Python Machine Learning Tips, Tricks, and Techniques course.

Shrinivas Shetty is a budding data science and machine learning enthusiast. He is a Master of Science graduate from Stevens Institute of Technology with a focus in data engineering and business intelligence and analytics. He has been working in the field of AI for a year, and he helps businesses solve problems and improve efficiency using AI and machine learning techniques. He provides software services using programming tools like Python and Scala to develop data science projects and deploy them using data engineering principles. Apart from doing computer science and using AI and machine learning to solve business use cases, he indulges his long-time passion for e-sports (DOTA 2 and CS: GO anyone?).

I would like to thank my family (mom, dad, and younger brother) for being a constant source of support and encouragement. I would also like to thank my dear friends for inspiring me to push through my limitations. It is a privilege to be in your company and a fortune to have your support.