Drew Farris

Bio

Drew Farris is a senior technologist and software developer at Booz Allen Hamilton where he helps his clients solve problems related to large scale analytics, distributed computing and machine learning. He is a contributing author to Manning Publications’ “Taming Text” and the Booz Allen Hamilton “Field Guide to Data Science”. He has implemented a wide variety of text exploration, management and retrieval applications combining natural language processing, classification and visualization techniques. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, mentors and contributes a number of open source software projects and holds a master's degree in Information Resource Management from Syracuse University's iSchool.