Description: "The practice of data analytics is changing and modernizing. Innovations in computation and machine learning are creating new opportunities for the data analyst: exposing previously unexplored data to scientific analysis, scaling tasks through automation, and allowing deeper and more accurate modeling"--
Brief description: Leslie Hendrix is a clinical associate professor in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She received her PhD in statistics in 2011 and a BS in mathematics in 2005 from the University of South Carolina. She has received two university-wide teaching awards for her work in teaching business analytics and statistics courses and is active in the research and teaching communities for analytics. She was instrumental in founding the Moore School's newly formed Data Lab and currently serves as the assistant director.