jlooper / data-science-for-beginners

10 Weeks, 20 Lessons, Data Science for All!

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Find me on the interwebz at jenlooper.com or on Twitter @jenlooper. Pronouns are she/her.

Projects of Note:

I've published a textbook for kids in grades 6-8, published by Wiley, entitled Computer Science for Kids. It is alighted to CSTA standards and has a fun, game-driven storyline with bespoke print illustrations. Follow this project here and consider purchasing the book for the cool middle-schooler in your life!

Forthcoming in December 2023 is my latest book, The Illustrated AWS Cloud, a visually-guided story-led approach to learning the fundamentals of Cloud Computing using AWS. Check out its web site here. All the author's proceeds from this book will go to Code To Inspire, a program helping women in Afghanistan learn to code.

Enjoy free Machine Learning zines!

I founded Front-End Foxes, Inc., an international nonprofit, in 2018. Find our awesome workshops and community recipe book.

Check out the Digital Humanities Toolkit, currently under development here.

Some fun facts:

✨ I am Head of Academic Advocacy at AWS.

✨ I worked at Microsoft for several years, co-leading the Academic Team in DevRel among other activities. I've also worked in nonprofits, small startups, and medium sized companies.

✨ I've written some amazing curricula while at my time at Microsoft that ranks very high on GitHub and has millions of views. It's not in the shape I left it, but if you'd like to see it as I originally designed it, with images intact, a fork is here. This is how this curriculum was designed and should look. I also kept copies of the ML, AI, IoT and Data Science curricula which you can find here as well.

✨ I teach occasionally at Boston University's Metropolitan School in the CS department.

✨ I have over 23 years' experience as a web and mobile developer, specializing in creating cross-platform mobile and web apps.

✨ I enjoy using machine learning solutions within a mobile and web context (applied ML).

✨ Mostly these days I build with Vue.js and Astro.

✨ I live in Wellesley, Massachusetts (USA) with my husband and am an empty nester with two adult daughters