My parents: I am thankful for their life-long sacrifice, prayers, and support to ensure I have a better life than what they had.

Sarah: My wife and my pillar of support. I can barely get ready for work without her help; writing a book would’ve been impossible without her relentless encouragement and effort to provide an environment where I could focus on research and writing.

Sameeha, Abdullah, and Yusuf: My kids for their sacrifice of quality time with dad. They would stand with a book for me to read, a ball to play catch, or a board game, but first check if I was finished writing and never complained if I could not make it.

Jim Rappe and Wayne Eckerson: My fellow professionals who reviewed my work and then encouraged that I should write a book on this topic.

Dr. Fakhar Lodhi: My teacher, long-time mentor, and friend who helped me build a technology-agnostic structure of the entire analytics implementation methodology.

Dr. Sajjad Haider: For his extensive help in researching a wide variety of topics across mathematics, statistics, and artificial intelligence.

Keith Hare, Konrad Kopczynski, and Dr Zamir Iqbal: For reviewing the entire manuscript and providing insightful comments and valuable feedback.

Andrea Dierna: My editor at Morgan Kaufmann who worked patiently with a first-time writer, kept providing valuable feedback, and kept accommodating my missed deadlines.