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+#Maxwell Burner
+*By Maxwell Burner*
+I have a B.S. and an M.S. in Environmental Science. I got my M.S. in Richland, living across the street
+from Battelle and the US Government's Pacific Northwest National Lab institute. I would love to go back
+and work there someday. This is a great opportunity for me because it combines my interest in evironmental 
+science with my interest in data science
+
+As far as project ideas: I know we have tutorials for both R and Python, but what about Scala? It's not as
+common, and I'm not as skilled in it as R or Python, but it is used a lot for distributed computation.
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