Hi! I’m Alice.
I am passionate about making complex things easy to understand and using data science to tell fun and engaging stories.
I do both of these things via a variety of mediums.
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Data Science Courses
I’m currently creating a Data Science in Python series with Maven Analytics. You can find my first two courses, Data Prep & Exploratory Data Analysis and Unsupervised Learning, on Udemy.
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SQL Book
I am the author of the book, SQL Pocket Guide, 4th Edition (O’Reilly). You can read about what makes this book different from other SQL books here.
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YouTube Tutorials
I make videos explaining data science concepts on YouTube. All the accompanying Python code can be found on Github.
My most popular YouTube video is actually not data science related, but teaches you how to crack a master lock in 6 minutes.
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Blog
I love data science. I also love Taylor Swift songs. So why not mix the two? My blog aims to bring together the worlds of analytics and pop culture. My posts have been featured in:
By far, my most popular post is How Text Messages Change From Dating to Marriage. It went viral twice and you can browse the Reddit threads here and here.
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Speaking Engagements
I’ve spoken at dozens of conferences, meetups, company meetings, women in STEM events and more. I mainly talk about data science for beginners, data visualization, natural language processing and my experience as a data science educator.
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Freelance Data Science Work
To inquire about details and rates, you can message me at adashofdata@gmail.com or via LinkedIn. I have past experience:
- Teaching: Leading data science trainings in Python, R, SQL and Tableau
- Analyzing Data: Using machine learning to provide insights and practical recommendations
- Consulting: Advising non-technical teams on how to incorporate data science into their processes
Using your data set in a data science project right now. Thank you for doing what you do! I’m pretty sure my assignment will be great 🙂
Glad you found the data that you needed! Have fun with your analysis 🙂
Bought your SQL Pocket Guide 4th ed. Very informative, but where can I download the data for the examples (e.g. waterfalls, owner, county,tour)? Thanks
You can find the waterfall data here (https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/0636920013471/-/tree/master) from the third edition of the book. I’ve renamed some tables, so upfall –> waterfall and trip –> tour. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Thank you!
Hi! I just wanna say I started reading your publications last year for my bachelor degree in Computer Science and I was already a big fan! You are one of the few that makes science simple and fun. I learned a lot from you. Now I am also seeing your videos and I am so grateful for your work. Thank you so much! You rock!! Big hugs from Brazil.
Thanks so much for the note! Best of luck with your CS degree.
Hi Alice! I just finished your SQL Crash Course for Beginners. You are a fantastic presenter and made the material so easy to understand. Just stopped by your site to say thanks and keep up the great work!
Thank you for the kind words!
Dear Alice,
Thank you for your wonderful videos. I was always scared to explore text mining. But your youtube videos made it so easy for me learn and start coding in python. Want to thank you.
Regards
Anchal
I’m so glad to hear that! Thanks for the note.
Hi Alice. Thanks so much for the muffin vs cupcake tutorial. I know it has been up there for a while but I just happened to find it, and it was amazing. Respectfully, I have some questions about that since I don’t understand some parts of it, How Can I ask you? can I leave my questions here for you? For instance, I don’t understand quite well the section # Get the separating hyperplane, and # Plot the parallels to the separating hyperplane that pass through the support vectors?? I don’t understand how you did that?
Thanks in advance
Hi Ramin – I’m glad you found the tutorial useful. You can email me at adashofdata@gmail.com. As for plotting section, I used the code from the sklearn documentation here: http://scikit-learn.org/0.18/auto_examples/svm/plot_separating_hyperplane.html. Hope that helps. Best, Alice
SO excited to find you! Even though it’s been a few years since you actively post – you were featured somewhere (now I can’t remember because it’s been a few days since I read that article) but have had your page open in my browser for days! I’ve just gotten into Data Science & am getting my Master’s right now – your use of data is SO fun. And so inspiring. This is exactly why I wanted to get into this field 🙂 THANK you for creating this page, years ago!
Hi Laura – Thanks for the note! I’m so glad to hear that you’ve enjoyed the blog and that you’re getting into data science. I wish you the best of luck in your master’s degree and data science career. – Alice
Amazing blog! It’s reached Brazil hue³
hey there,
I am a contributor for an online magazine and would love to feature your stats.
Just need your premission to use them.
Many thnaks
Sure. Please include my name and a link to my website. Thanks!
Fun read. I love nerdy girly girls. 🙂