Dr. Eric Siegel is the founding chair of the Predictive Analytics World conferences series, is the author of the award-winning book Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, and is the host of the Dr. Data Show on YouTube. He is a former Columbia University professor and has become a defender of civil liberties in the age of Big Data. He is also the editor of The Predictive Analytics Times.