Ajay Ohri

Ajay Ohri is a data scientist and prominent blogger in open source data science. Since 2007 he has published his blog DecisionStats.com. He is the author of two books on R.

Education

Ohri graduated from Delhi College of Engineering with a B.E in Mechanical Engineering, and has a MBA from Indian Institute of Management Lucknow.

Books

In 2012 he wrote R for Business Analytics for Springer Publishing. The book is being translated into Chinese by Xi’an Jiaotong University Press. In 2014 he wrote R for Cloud Computing: An Approach for Data Scientists for Springer Publishing.

Articles

He has written around 50 articles for ProgrammableWeb and many articles for KDNuggets. Besides this, he has been cited by Wired Magazine and ReadWriteWeb for espousing a marketplace for algorithms.

How to be a better writer

His article "How to be a Better Writer" has become popular on Tumblr and Quora.

Interviews

An early technology writer in data science, he has interviewed John Sall, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro,Jan De Leeuw, Hadley Wickham, Hilary Mason,Usama Fayyad and Stephen L. Baker among others.