Alice Zhao

Alice Zhao is a data scientist who is passionate about teaching and making complex things easy to understand. She has taught numerous courses in SQL, Python, and R as a senior data scientist at Metis and as a cofounder of Best Fit Analytics. Her highly rated technical tutorials on YouTube are known for being practical, entertaining, and visually engaging.She writes about analytics and pop culture on her blog, A Dash of Data. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Thrillist, and Working Mother. She has spoken at a variety of conferences on topics ranging from natural language processing to data visualization. She has her MS in analytics and BS in electrical engineering, both from Northwestern University.