Contributing Writer

Jim Bednar

Jim Bednar leads the HoloViz group at Anaconda, working with commercial, academic, and government clients like Pangeo.io to improve Python software for visualizing and analyzing large and complex datasets. Dr. Bednar holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, along with Electrical Engineering and Philosophy degrees. He has published over 50 academic papers and books and manages the HoloViz suite of open source Python projects (including hvPlot, Panel, GeoViews, Datashader, Colorcet, and Param). Before joining Anaconda in 2015, Dr. Bednar was a faculty member in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, for 10 years.