Amit Kohli is a Senior Data Strategist for ACDI/VOCA based in London, England. As an environmental engineer turned data strategist, Amit started his career collecting data for environmental protection and disseminating it with AQUASTAT, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s global water information system. He has more than 15 years of experience working with data and a deep commitment to international development that comes from his years of living in developing countries and witnessing extreme living conditions. He has led groups for R scripting language users in Ghana and England and is the author of libraries and blogs at www.amitkohli.com.
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