Michael Heydt is an independent consultant specializing in social, mobile, analytics, and cloud technologies, with an emphasis on cloud native 12-factor applications. Michael has been a software developer and trainer for over 30 years and is the author of books such as D3.js By Example, Learning Pandas, Mastering Pandas for Finance, and Instant Lucene.NET. You can find more information about him on LinkedIn at michaelheydt.
I would like to greatly thank my family for putting up with me disappearing for months on end and sacrificing my sparse free time to indulge in creation of content and books like this one. They are my true inspiration and enablers.
