Ellen Friedman is a solutions consultant and well-known speakerand author, currently writing mainly about big data topics. She is acommitter for the Apache Drill and Apache Mahout ...view moreEllen Friedman is a solutions consultant and well-known speakerand author, currently writing mainly about big data topics. She is acommitter for the Apache Drill and Apache Mahout projects. With aPhD in Biochemistry, she has years of experience as a research scientistand has written about a variety of technical topics, includingmolecular biology, nontraditional inheritance, and oceanography.Ellen is also coauthor of a book of magic-themed cartoons, A Rabbit Under the Hat (The Edition House). Ellen is on Twitter as@Ellen_Friedman.view less