Ramnath Vaidyanathan is a Data Scientist at Alteryx. At Alteryx, Ramnath is responsible for leading the roadmap for interactive visualizations for predictive analytics. Prior to joining Alteryx, Ramnath was an assistant professor of operations management at McGill University. Ramnath is addicted to R and Javascript and has developed several R packages (rcharts, slidify, htmlwidgets) aimed at simplifying the process of creating interactive visualizations and web-friendly interactive documents from R.