Sometimes, our speakers are preoccupied with their day jobs and it takes us a while to finalize details for an announcement. But it's always worth the wait!

Such is the case with Ed Küpfer, who spends his days visualizing data for the coaches and players of the Houston Rockets, an NBA team whose current playoff run is keeping Ed busy. As I finish this announcement, the Rockets are preparing for game 2 of their series with the Los Angeles Clippers. And that's a pair of sentences I never would have expected to write!

How, exactly, does someone land such a cool job? In Ed's case, his path includes prior experience as a pharmacist’s assistant, a parking lot line painter, and a short order cook in a strip club. Obviously that prepared him for a career as an analyst for the Rockets because, really, what else could he have done?

As a self-taught number cruncher, Ed relies on his varied life experience to help communicate abstruse statistical findings to coaches and players. That life experience has also prepared him to speak at Fluxible, and we’re delighted that he’ll be sharing his visualization magic with us.

Stay tuned for further announcements about details of Ed’s session at Fluxible.