Alison Hill
VP Of Product at Pixeltable
Bozeman, Montana, United States
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Top SchoolAlison Hill is a product executive and technical leader with 15+ years bridging data science, developer tools, and hardware-accelerated analytics to deliver developer-focused products at scale. With a PhD in psychology and deep expertise in cognitive science, she designs workflows and education that align with how teams think and learn, evidenced by creations like tidymodels.org and the palmerpenguins dataset now widely used in ML education. She has driven product vision and adoption across foundational open-source ecosystems (R Markdown/Quarto, conda, Anaconda Distribution) and defined emerging categories such as composable data systems for AI. Alison combines hands-on engineering and documentation contributions on GitHub with senior product leadership at organizations including Anaconda, Voltron Data, IBM, and RStudio, reaching millions of users and major enterprise partners. An effective communicator and community builder, she scales developer education globally through courses, keynotes, and practical tooling while maintaining a researcher’s rigor from her NIH-funded academic career.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Psychology, Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Psychology at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPh.D. Developmental Psychology Quantitative Methods & Evaluation, Ph.D. Developmental Psychology Quantitative Methods & Evaluation at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (19)
data-visualizations10
markdown10
hugo10
website-development10
r10
css10
data-visualisation10
tidyverse10
markdown-it10
html10
data-wrangling10
rmarkdown10
data-visualization10
documentation10
package-development9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rbind/apreshill
May 2017 - Nov 2022
Personal website of Alison Presmanes Hill
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 633 commits, 76 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alison appears to be a full-stack developer, primarily focused on updating the website's visual styling and content. Their contributions primarily involve changes to CSS and HTML, including color modifications, font adjustments, and the integration of new visual elements like images and a contact form. They also address minor issues, such as link styling and the inclusion of a "view source" button, while also making updates to the structure.
reacthill
allisonhorst/palmerpenguins
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
A great intro dataset for data exploration & visualization (alternative to iris).
Role in this project:Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:31 commits, 41 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alison's contributions primarily focused on preparing and documenting a dataset. They initiated the project, set up the package structure using `usethis`, and added the data. The user wrangled the raw penguin data, cleaning and transforming it for analysis. Furthermore, the user added packages related to data visualization and documentation to enhance the package.
data-explorationdatadata-sciencedatasetiris
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