Engler focuses on helping researchers, policy makers, and civic hackers spend less time sifting through spreadsheets so they have more time to analyze open data and build new applications on top of it. Active in the Chicago open source software community, Engler believes that open source tools are critical for transparency and replicability in both science and government.VERONICA ESCAMILLASr. Researcher/Spatial Epidemiologist, Lindau Lab, Department of OB/GYN, University of Chicago