Contreras J-P - Splunk 7 Essentials: Demystify machine data by leveraging datasets, building reports, and sharing powerful insights

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J-P Contreras, a Splunk-certified administrator and sales engineer, has delivered value-oriented data analytics and performance planning solutions for 20+ years. He has built award-winning consulting teams to help companies turn data into analytical insights. He helps companies implement Splunk and enjoys everything the Splunk community offers.
He received his MBA in e-commerce from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, Chicago, in 2001. He trains in DePaul's Continuing Education Program and is a member of DePaul's Driehaus School of Business Advisory Board.

Erickson Delgado is an enterprise architect who loves to mine and analyze data. He began using Splunk in version 4.0 and has pioneered its use into his current work. He has worked with start-up companies in the Philippines to help build their open source infrastructure.
He has developed applications with Python and node.js and is interested in Go and recovering programming with C/C++. In the recent years, he engaged himself in employing DevOps in his work.
He blows off steam by saltwater fishing, mountain biking, crafting robots, and touring the country. He lives in Orlando.

Betsy Page Sigman is a distinguished professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has taught courses in statistics, project management, databases, and electronic commerce for the last 16 years, and has been recognized with awards for teaching and service. She has also worked at George Mason University in the past. Her recent publications include a Harvard Business case study and a Harvard Business review article. Additionally, she is a frequent media commentator on technological issues and big data.

Dmitry Anoshin is a data technologist and expert in building and implementing big data and analytics solutions, with a successful track record of analytics projects in multiple industries, like retail, finance, marketing, machine tools, and e-commerce. He has in-depth knowledge of BI, ETL, data warehousing, data modeling, and big data. He is proficient in data integration and many data warehousing methodologies.

Moreover, he has written 3 books with Packt - SAP Lumira Essentials, Learning Hunk, and Mastering BI with Microstrategy 10 as well as reviewed many books in analytics space.

Ruben Oliva Ramos is an engineer with a master's in computer and electronic engineering and specialization in teleinformatics and networking from University of Salle Bajio in Leon, Mexico. He has 5+ years of experience of building web applications to control and monitor devices linked to Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
He teaches mechatronics, electronics, robotics, automation, and microcontrollers. He is a consultant and developer for projects in control and monitoring systems and datalogger data using Android, iOS, HTML5, ASP.NET, databases, web servers, and hardware programming.