Kirk Paul Lafler

Author of *PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS* and a data scientist, Lafler is an educator, developer, programmer, and consultant. He teaches as a lecturer and adjunct professor at San Diego State University and the University of California San Diego Extension, offering SAS, SQL, Python, Excel, and cloud-based technology courses to users around the world. Kirk has decades of programming experience and specializes in SAS software, SQL, RDBMS technologies (Oracle, SQL-Server, Teradata, DB2), Python, and other languages and productivity tools. He is actively involved with SAS, SQL, Python, R, ML, and cloud-computing user groups, conferences, and blogs as an invited speaker, educator, keynote, and leader, and is the recipient of 28 "Best" contributed paper, hands-on workshop (HOW), and poster awards.