Ted Dunning is Chief Applications Architect at MapR Technologiesand active in the open source community.
He currently serves as VP for Incubator at the Apache Foundation,as a cham...view moreTed Dunning is Chief Applications Architect at MapR Technologiesand active in the open source community.
He currently serves as VP for Incubator at the Apache Foundation,as a champion and mentor for a large number of projects, and ascommitter and PMC member of the Apache ZooKeeper and Drillprojects. He developed the t-digest algorithm used to estimateextreme quantiles. T-digest has been adopted by several open sourceprojects. He also developed the open source log-synth projectdescribed in the book Sharing Big Data Safely (O’Reilly).
Ted was the chief architect behind the MusicMatch (now YahooMusic) and Veoh recommendation systems, built fraud-detectionsystems for ID Analytics (LifeLock), and has issued 24 patents todate. Ted has a PhD in computing science from University of Sheffield.When he’s not doing data science, he plays guitar and mandolin.Ted is on Twitter as @ted_dunning.view less