Best Fit Analytics Workshop

Specialties

Best Fit Analytics Workshop offers weekend and evening courses for adults interested in learning more about data science. We introduce people to data science in a beginner-​friendly, classroom setting and help students find their passion within data science. We want to enable analysts to have a working knowledge of introductory data science skills and empower our students as problem solvers. In addition, we are building a community committed to sharing knowledge, best practices and opportunities.

History

Established in 2015.

After starting as a data scientist at one of Chicago’s largest digital companies, Alice began to receive questions from her peers about how they could learn more advanced analytical techniques. She began to hold classes for her colleagues and the sessions were a big hit in the office. Soon, Alice noticed that the questions about analytics weren’t limited to just her office, but others had an interest in learning more as well. That’s when Alice decided that there was a market for her knowledge and decided to start Best Fit Analytics Workshop with two of her grad school classmates.

Meet the Business Owner

Alice Z.

Business Owner

Co-​founder of Best Fit Analytics Workshop. Alice works at Cars​.com where she is the company’s first data scientist. Her job is to analyze data to better understand consumer behavior on the site and in the auto industry. She met Scott and Adrianna while in the Master of Science in Analytics program at Northwestern University. Prior to that, Alice worked in IT consulting at Accenture and received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NU. She spent her summers in high school teaching at math and science camps, and at one point launched her own week-​long music camp.

She blogs about analytics and pop culture on A Dash of Data (adashof​data​.com) in her free time, with her post on «How Text Messages Change From Dating to Marriage» making it to the front page of Reddit! She is passionate about teaching and excited to share her data science skills with the Chicago community.