James D. Miller is an IBM Certified Expert, Master Consultant, and application/system architect with over 35 years of applications and system design/development experience across multiple platforms, technologies, and data formats, including big data. His experience includes IBM Planning Analytics, BI, web architecture/design, systems analysis, GUI design/testing, data modeling, and OLAP design/development. He has also worked on client/server, web, and mainframe applications. He has authored numerous books, including Implementing Splunk, Second Edition; Mastering Splunk, Hands-On Machine Learning with IBM Watson, Watson Projects, Statistics for Data Science, and Mastering Predictive Analytics with R, Second Edition.