Things about me:

• I work as a fraud analyst for an e-commerce company
• This means I spend a lot of time building and using tools that crunch data
• I'm not a coder, but I play one on TV
• I'm not a statistician, but I play one on TV
• I'm not a data scientist, but I play one on TV
• I'm not a detective, but...well, you get the idea

My last degree was in Rhetoric and Political Communications. The one I'm working on currently is in Applied Math. After that, it's a Masters in Stats.

I speak a bit of Perl, R, C, 6502 Assembler (yes, I'm that old), and I'm learning Javascript currently. After that will be Python, I suspect.

There's not a damned thing wrong with the serial comma, nor with adding two spaces after a period.

I prefer City of Heroes to Warcraft. I prefer how-to and textbooks to fiction and narrative non-fiction.

If you have to have a fictional personal hero, you could do a lot worse than Jubal Harshaw.

Minneapolis is a great place for both geeks and artists. I'm very fortunate to be living here when the geek and art cultures are so rich.