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To ensure that we continue to live up to the highest standards, we've asked a few of our most respected member-bloggers to serve as an advisory panel for the site. They were selected for the outstanding quality of their work, their expertise across the spectrum of disciplines that make up our community, and most of all for their commitment to the ideals that drive us: inclusiveness, balance, community and civility.

Watch for original, exclusive posts from our advisory panel members. They'll enliven our podcast series, appear in our webinars, and cover events for us as the opportunities arise. And we look to them to be advocates for the community-at-large as well, keeping us focused on our mission as we expand, and making sure we don't forget...

Stephen Baker Stephen
Baker

http://www.thenumerati.net/
@stevebaker on Twitter
Stephen L. Baker is a senior writer at BusinessWeek. He is a contributing writer for Blogspotting, a blog of BusinessWeek. Previously he was a Paris correspondent. Baker joined BusinessWeek in March, 1987, as manager of the Mexico City bureau, where he was responsible for covering Mexico and Latin America. He was named Pittsburgh bureau manager in 1992. Before BusinessWeek, Baker was a reporter for the El Paso Herald-Post. Prior to that, he was chief economic reporter for The Daily Journal in Caracas, Venezuela. Baker holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a master's from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Paul Barsch Paul
Barsch

http://www.paulbarsch.com
@paul_a_barsch on Twitter
Paul Barsch directs professional services marketing programs for Teradata, a leader in data warehousing and analytics. Paul has also worked in senior marketing roles for global consultancies EDS (an HP company) and BearingPoint.
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Gary Cokins Gary
Cokins

http://blogs.sas.com/cokins
Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and enterprise performance management systems. He works with performance management solutions for SAS, a global leader in business analytics software. Gary began his career in industry with a Fortune 100 company in CFO and operations roles. He then worked 15 years in consulting with Deloitte, KPMG, and EDS. Gary is a graduate of Cornell (industrial engineering) and Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management (MBA). The most recent of Gary's six books is Performance Management – Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics.
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Jill Dyché Jill
Dyché

http://www.jilldyche.com/
@jilldyche on Twitter
Jill Dyché is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and business consultant. She is partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting, a professional services firm specializing in enterprise information design and deployment. Jill is responsible for key client work and industry analysis in the areas of data governance, business intelligence, and master data management. Jill has authored three books, and her work has been featured in major publications, including Computerworld, the Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek.com.
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Themos Kalafatis Themos
Kalafatis

http://lifeanalytics.blogspot.com/
@lifeanalytics on Twitter
Themos Kalafatis holds a BS in Computer Studies and a MS in Knowledge Extraction from the University of East Anglia, UK. Since 2000 he was worked as a consultant in Data Mining, Text Mining, Information Extraction and Data Quality. Areas where he successfully applied Predictive Analytics include Real Estate, Banking, Marketing and Social Media. He writes about practical applications on Data Mining, Text Mining and Information Extraction in his blog, LifeAnalytics.
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James Taylor James
Taylor

http://jtonedm.com/
@jamet123 on Twitter
James Taylor is CEO and Principal Consultant at Decision Management Solutions and one of the leading experts in decision management and decisioning technologies. James is passionate about using technology to improve decision making and develop smarter systems. He is an active consultant, speaker, blogger and author. He is the lead authorof "Smart (Enough) Systems" (Prentice Hall, 2007), which he wrote with Neil Raden, and has contributed chapters to books on business rules and business intelligence. James was previously a VP at FICO and has over 20 years developing software and solutions for clients.
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