User:Jonb71

My background is in marketing, liberal arts, history, and business. Professionally, I am interested in data analysis and visualization. Non-professionally I like playing guitar and woodworking.

I speak English and a fair bit of Russian and Italian. I also know a few words in Kyrgyz. I love listening to music and have some ranging tastes. I'm into jazz, funk, rock, soul and blues, including: Grant Green, Cake, Black Eyed Peas, Lonnie Smith, Bob Marley, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Gheorghiu - Alagna - Plasson, John Coltrane, A. H. Raman, Beck, Jimmy Rosenberg, Kenny Burrell, U2, Albert King, Donna the Buffalo, The Derek Trucks Band, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, A Tribe Called Quest, George Benson, Vince Guaraldi, Bettye LaVette, Frank Vignola, The Teaching Company, The Bamboos, De-Phazz, Harry Connick, Jr., Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers, Franz Ferdinand, Panjabi MC, The White Stripes, Peter Gabriel, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Gogol Bordello, Nelly, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Orgone, Balkan Beat Box, Ben Harper, Jamiroquai, Madonna, James Brown, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Lucy Kaplansky, The Beatles, Lyn Collins, Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, Asa, Bonde do Rolê.