Writing? Coding? Data Science? I offer you the complete package. Do you need:

• A data scientist who can also tell a compelling story?
• A technical writer who can also code?
• A coder who can also communicate?

I’d love to help.

I’ve been publishing my writing since high school in the late 90s, tinkering with Linux since 2004, and making websites professionally since 2005.

Along the way, I’ve researched and written articles and books on extreme memory improvement, published short stories, plays, and seven novels, written and acted in short films and podcasts, released open source tools I’ve coded, and finally, discovered the field where I can use all my favorite skills at once: data science.

↳ Data Science
↳ Coding
↳ Web Development
↳ Writing
↳ People Skills
↳ Contact

A mission-driven organization working to solve a global problem that doesn’t get enough attention.

I hold a Micromasters Certificate in Data Science from the University of California San Diego.

Data science lets me bring all my major skills to the table: elegant coding, intense intellectual analysis, and finding the compelling stories in this data that can make complex topics understandable to non-experts.

I've published several reports as Jupyter Notebooks, each of which explores a complex question using an official dataset.

• Your Real Odds of Dying From COVID-19 in the U.S.
• Does Diabetes Correlate With Affluence?
• Do Countries Have "Synthetic" Traits?

Explore the hard data of COVID-19 risks and the case for vaccines in a quirky, nonjudgmental game.

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I basically live in Emacs, the shell, and Firefox running Vimium. Many years ago, Perl was my first love... but Python won me over.

I do enjoy R's tidyverse (especially the pipe), but the Python module ecosystem feels orders of magnitude more diverse than what R has to offer. Though R offers excellent tools for data analysis, with Python, you get that plus everything else.

Create reports easily from SQL queries on spreadsheets and CSVs, and configure it all in YAML.

A Python command-line tool.

Documentation | Source | PyPI

For over 15 years, my company, Wineskin Websites, has served non-profits and small businesses.

“Heartfelt thanks to Bill Powell… who developed this website and with infinite patience and contagious enthusiasm taught [us] to maintain it ourselves.”

Traverse City, Michigan

I love learning, and I love explaining what I learn.

If you need a writer who can make your complex message simple, attractive, and easy to understand, I’m your guy.

My favorite themes: Tech Writing, Memory Improvement, and the Writing Craft.

"You are competent and honest and communicate very well
(a rare quality in a techie 🙂)." Gower, Missouri

My favorite genres: Mysteries, Humor, Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Kids' Books.

Note: My real name is Bill Powell, but my (favorite) pen name is Bill Alive.

I’ve been taking care of my clients for over 15 years. Turns out, solving complex problems with grace and aplomb makes people happy. Really happy.

“We have never found anyone who has understood what we wanted... something simple but beautiful... You don’t realize how rare you are!”

Kansas City, Missouri

Since 2017, I’ve had the privilege of working as art director with a fantastic designer, Christopher Capio.

And I'm lucky to participate in multiple communities.

I'd love to hear from you! Contact me at public [at] billalive.com, or use this form.