Alice Zhao is a data scientist who is passionate about teaching and making complex things easy to understand.

She is a lecturer for Northwestern University's Machine Learning and Data Science graduate program where she teaches Python, R, Data Warehousing and Data Visualization.

She is the author of the book, SQL Pocket Guide, 4th Edition (O'Reilly) and has the most popular Natural Language Processing in Python tutorial on YouTube, with 1.2 million views.

She has an M.S. in Analytics and B.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from Northwestern University.