Jake VanderPlas is an astronomer by training and currently works as a data scientist in the University of Washington's interdisciplinary eScience Institute. You can follow him on Twitter at @jakevdp, see his coding projects on GitHub or see what he's been thinking about lately on his blog, Pythonic Perambulations.
Visualizing 4-Dimensional Asteroids
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Jake VanderPlas, a data scientist who worked on the Graphic Science illustration in the October issue of Scientific American magazine.