Allison Horst
Artist at Plein Air
Bishop, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Horst is a technical product marketing lead and former university teaching faculty who blends 12+ years of data science education with hands-on developer marketing at Observable. She builds approachable learning experiences—tutorials, workshops, documentation and open educational resources—that scale, including the widely used palmerpenguins R package (1.2M+ CRAN downloads) that has been adopted across languages and datasets. Known for turning complex tools and methods into teachable workflows, she has led curriculum design for a master’s program and implemented documentation and process improvements across teams. Based in Bishop, California, Allison brings a rare mix of academic rigor (PhD in Environmental Science) and creative science communication, having held artist-in-residence roles that translate technical concepts into visual, didactic art.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Environmental Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Environmental Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (57)
markdown10
visualization10
dashboard10
r-package10
graphic10
rstudio10
r-stats10
tidyr10
frontend10
backend10
static-site-generator9
r9
javascript9
data-exploration9
ecology9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
allisonhorst/EDS_212_essential-math
Apr 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 78 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
allisonhorst/allisonhorst.github.io
May 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:284 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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