I have worked and studied as a data scientist for 6 years. I recently graduated with my Master's in Data Science from The University of Pennsylvania, an ivy-league school with a prestigious data progr... am. Most recently, I worked for a Fortune 100 company, leading data science projects that, among other things, helped them explain millions of dollars of variability in their profit and loss every month. Additionally, I have several years of experience in Data Science education. I have served as an online Data Science tutor for the past 14 months, helping middle school and high school students of multiple skill levels complete full data science projects. I guide students through every stage of the process, from choosing a topic to developing code to writing a paper. I also have experience teaching higher-level students, and served both as a teaching assistant for a graduate-level Applied Machine Learning course at the University of Pennsylvania, and served as an official Data Science Mentor to incoming graduate students at the same institution. Within the realm of data science, my areas of expertise include Python, SQL, machine learning (including deep learning), natural language processing, statistics, and experimental design.read more

Hi! I'm Dan! I've been practicing data science for 6 years and absolutely love it. Whether you are a total beginner or have some experience in the field, I can help take you to the next level. When it... comes to tutoring, I strongly adhere to 3 main philosophies: 1. The language I use should be as simple as possible. The academic world is filled with unnecessarily complex jargon, and I want there to be as few barriers as possible between a student and true understanding of a concept. This also means my lessons tend to skew toward using metaphors and conceptual visualizations rather than mathematical equations. 2. Lessons should be customized to each student. Everybody has different skill levels and different interests, and I find cookie-cutter lessons tend to fall short in some way or another. 3. The goal of my sessions is to teach you, not test you. I am amazed at how often students will be hesitant to ask me to repeat something, out of fear they will somehow offend me. Even if you simply zoned out for a few seconds and missed something, I will always encourage you to ask me to backtrack. Furthermore, I will always encourage feedback if something isn't working so I can change course to best suit you. There are a ton of fascinating topics in the field of data science, from how to teach computers to understand text like a person, to how to visualize data that has more dimensions than can reasonably fit on a graph. I love seeing the "eureka" feeling when a student grasps a new concept, and hope I can help you learn or build something cool!read more