Kevin Markham
Founder at Data School
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Top expert inComprehensive Data Science and Machine Learning Skills
Kevin Markham is the founder of Data School and a seasoned data science educator with 12 years of experience teaching Python, pandas, and scikit-learn to thousands of students through classroom instruction, online courses, and video content. He combines deep practical expertise—authoring widely used tutorials, Jupyter notebooks, and a popular pandas reference—with curriculum design and hands-on mentorship developed during leadership roles at General Assembly and Coursera. Kevin's open-source contributions include practical scikit-learn and pandas resources that emphasize readable pipelines and real-world best practices, and he has helped improve scikit-learn documentation as a technical writer. Based in Asheville, NC, he brings an engineer’s rigor from a Vanderbilt computer engineering background plus a knack for translating complex ML concepts into clear, teachable examples. An uncommon detail: he pairs extensive classroom hours with thousands more spent producing high-quality educational materials, making him as much a content craftsman as an instructor.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (54)
data-visualizations10
content-management-system10
python10
list-comprehension10
data-science10
scikit10
user-manual10
pandas10
machine-learning10
data-visualisation10
data-structure10
data-cleaning10
content-management10
fileio10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
justmarkham/DAT4
Dec 2014 - Feb 2021
General Assembly's Data Science course in Washington, DC
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:109 commits, 2 PRs, 70 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to a data science course repository by adding homework assignments and solutions. The assignments focus on core Python programming skills, particularly file I/O, and cover topics such as reading and writing CSV files, and basic data analysis. Furthermore, the user created Python quizzes with solutions to reinforce fundamental concepts.
data-science
justmarkham/DAT5
Mar 2015 - Aug 2019
General Assembly's Data Science course in Washington, DC
Role in this project:Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:107 commits, 1 PR, 89 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed code to a General Assembly Data Science course, focusing on introductory Python concepts. This included a beginner workshop and an intermediate workshop, covering basic data types, lists, functions, strings, loops, and dictionaries. The user also explored APIs and data analysis using Pandas and Scikit-learn, applying these skills to analyze the iris and Titanic datasets.
data-science
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