An active member of the New Jersey Big Data Alliance, Dr. Lindy Ryan is an award-winning professor of visual analytics at Montclair State University and Rutgers University. She is an active researcher at the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute. Prior to joining academia, Lindy led research and analyst activities in data discovery and visual analytics for Radiant Advisors, an advisory firm in the data science industry. She is a prolific speaker at industry and academic conferences worldwide and the author of “The Visual Imperative: Creating a Culture of Visual Discovery" (2016) and "Visual Data Storytelling with Tableau" (2018).