Lynn Cherny is a data analysis and visualization consultant and currently a visiting Knight Fellow at the University of Miami. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford and an M.Phil. in Computer Speech and Language Processing from Cambridge University. Her career began in research at Bell Labs. She then spent 18 years in various UX, UI, and usability roles in Silicon Valley, Paris, Seattle and Boston. As a consultant for the past six years, Lynn has worked on data visualization and analysis problems including creating customer personas, visualizing tax brackets, analyzing bug reports, network analysis for topic modeling, entity recognition of company names in news articles and dashboard design. Her passion is text visualization, and she is developing an educational toolset to make this easier for non-specialists with collaborators at Bocoup.com.
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