He has a background in theoretical physics, with a Ph.D from the University of Colorado. His current research interests include quantum computing, parallel and distributed computing and interactive computing environments for scientific computing and data science. He is a leader of the IPython project, co-founder of Project Jupyter and is an active contributor to a number of other open source projects focused on data science in Python. He is a board member of the NumFocus Foundation and a fellow at Cal Poly’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is @ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub. Announcement of Altair, Altair is a declarative statistical visualization library for Python. Alt...