Lindy Ryan

An active member of the New Jersey Big Data Alliance, Lindy Ryan is an award-winning professor of visual data analytics at Montclair State University and Rutgers University. She is an active researcher at the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute and was previously associate faculty at the School of Applied Leadership at CityU. Prior to joining academia, Ryan led research and analyst activities in data discovery and visual analytics for Radiant Advisors, an advisory firm in the data science industry. She is the author of “The Visual Imperative: Creating a Culture of Visual Discovery" and "Visual Data Storytelling with Tableau." Lindy is also the owner and publisher of Black Spot Books, a small-press publishing house focused on speculative fiction. She runs the blog She By Sea.