{"id":20,"date":"2017-01-18T13:41:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T19:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:17:15","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/about\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"about the author"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144\" style=\"width: 134px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/greg_superman_1980.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-144 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/greg_superman_1980.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Holland, 1980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Greg Holland is the administrator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgcdata.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CGCdata.com<\/a> and the slabdata.com blog. \u00a0He began compiling the CGC Census with the permission of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgccomics.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comics Guaranty LLC<\/a>, and has made the search engine for CGC Census Analysis available since 2003, presented at CGCdata.com since 2011. \u00a0The CGC census data available is from July 2001 to present. \u00a0No information is available at CGCdata.com which\u00a0was not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/18\/cgc-census-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly available<\/a> on the official CGC Census. \u00a0In addition to these websites, Greg is\u00a0the creator of Valiant Comics fan reference websites since 1999\u00a0and the administrator for <a href=\"http:\/\/valiantfans.com\/forum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ValiantFans.com<\/a> message board\u00a0since 2004. He also posts under the identity &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgccomics.com\/boards\/profile\/396-valiantman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">valiantman<\/a>&#8216; on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgccomics.com\/boards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CGC Message Board<\/a>\u00a0since 2002. \u00a0Many of the ideas presented on the slabdata.com blog may have originated as posts on the CGC Message Board.<\/p>\n<p>Greg considers\u00a0comic books as his\u00a0&#8220;serious hobby&#8221;, including the compilation and analysis of &#8216;slab data&#8217; for\u00a0professionally graded comic books (known as &#8216;slabs&#8217;). \u00a0He is an avid comic book collector since 1992, an <em>Overstreet Guide to Comic Books<\/em> Advisor since 2003, contributor to editions of the <em>Standard Catalog of Comic Books<\/em>, and also the <em>Comic Buyer&#8217;s Guide <\/em>during its publication. \u00a0Despite his plans to become Superman someday when he was 4 years old in 1980, he is now a\u00a0data scientist and research director for education and the workforce. His academic\u00a0background includes multiple degrees in computer science resulting in his Ph.D. for applied science of information quality completed in 2010. He\u00a0has been married since 1997 and has a daughter born in 2011, who plans to\u00a0grow up to be Supergirl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Holland is the administrator of CGCdata.com and the slabdata.com blog. \u00a0He began compiling the CGC Census with the permission of Comics Guaranty LLC, and has made the search engine for CGC Census Analysis available since 2003, presented at CGCdata.com since 2011. \u00a0The CGC census data available is from July 2001 to present. \u00a0No information &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/about\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;about the author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/201"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}