Alice Zhao
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlice Zhao is an experienced data scientist and educator with eight years of industry and teaching experience, currently an Adjunct Lecturer at Northwestern University and Lead Data Science Instructor at Maven Analytics. She authored the SQL Pocket Guide (4th ed.) and has a knack for translating complex ML and data engineering concepts into clear, practical instruction across Python, R, SQL, Tableau and visualization. Her popular NLP content includes the most-viewed NLP video on YouTube (1.2M views) and a viral analysis of how text messages change from dating to marriage, demonstrating both technical depth and public-facing storytelling. She has built curriculum and advised hundreds of student projects at Metis and in corporate trainings, and previously served as the first data scientist at Cars.com applying analytics across marketing, sales and tech teams. A frequent speaker who enjoys mentoring women in data, she combines classroom rigor with real-world consulting experience through A Dash of Data. Based in Chicago, she blends academic credentials (MS in Analytics) with practical authorship and content creation that reaches large online audiences.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Analytics, Master of Science (M.S.), Analytics at Northwestern UniversityHigh School, High School at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Github Skills (8)
nlp10
python10
natural-language-processing10
language-processing10
machine-learning9
react7
nodejs7
javascript6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adashofdata/taylor_swift_data
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Song and lyric data collected for Taylor Swift's 10 studio albums (up through Midnights)
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes in 1 day
adashofdata/nlp-in-python-tutorial
Jul 2018 - Aug 2022
comparing stand up comedians using natural language processing
Contributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years 1 month
nlpcomparingpythonstandlanguage-processing
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