Allison Horst
Technical Product Marketing Lead at Observable
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 (64)
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r-stats10
static-site-generator9
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data-visualisation9
biodiversity9
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transparency9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
allisonhorst/stats-illustrations
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
R & stats illustrations by @allison_horst
Contributions:6 PRs, 248 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
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allisonhorst/allisonhorst.github.io
May 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:284 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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