Data Helpers

"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” —Mr. Rogers

Hi, I'm Angela Bassa. Recently, I asked data people on Twitter who are able to answer questions and mentor newcomers to raise their hands. And Wow, did Twitter deliver!

Don't be shy: don't be afraid to reach out to these analysts, scientists, and engineers to ask for help. Remember to introduce yourself and explain what you'd like guidance on. They can help with tutoring, pointing you to resources, resume/interview tips, general career advice, or even just a casual conversation about what it's like to work in the industry, government, academia, or the non-profit sector.

Use common sense: I have not personally vetted anyone, and can't vouch for their behavior. If you believe someone is acting in bad faith (or not within the Code of Conduct below), please let me know.

If you're just getting started, here's a great post from Mikhail Popov with advice on how to break past the vicious cycle of "needing experience to get experience." And if you're looking for resources to learn more about "how to data,"you can find many alternatives in this excellent thread by Chris Engelhardt.

Without further ado, here are some awesome data professionals who are able to answer questions, promote, or mentor newcomers into the field (in chronological order of response):

Peadar Coyle

@springcoil

I'd be glad to help.

Gordon Shotwell

@gshotwell

I'm happy to help with R, releasing your first R package or how to learn data science from a non-traditional background. DMs are open.

Vicki

@vboykis

Always happy to help by email/DM. Wrote a couple posts, too:

1) http://veekaybee.github.io/getting-tech-industry-news/

2) http://veekaybee.github.io/how-to-big-data/

Andrew K Musselman

@akm

Listen to a couple @Adversarial_L episodes, then if you still think I may be of help feel free to DM

Jesse Mostipak

@kierisi

Always happy to help! Especially those looking to transition to a data career, with a ❤️ and interest in joining the non-profit sector.

Jonathan Leslie

@jlesliedata

I'm a freelance data scientist and mentor. Happy to chat about ds, transitioning to ds, or freelancing, esp in the uk.

Jasper

@latentjasper

Email me with questions and I'll do my best!

Matthew C. Higgs

@TheLeanAcademic

DM me with any DS questions, links to DS projects, or names of DS idols. Lots of connections @DataLabScotland

TigerSharkAnalytics

@tigersharkllc

Sign us up.

Steph de Silva

@StephdeSilva

Hit me up if I can help!

Árni Már

@thrastarson

Happy to help!

Alex Yakubovich

@alex_yakubovich

I would love to help with this! My DMs are open.

Saurabh Bhatnagar

@analyticsaurabh

Can help with practical ML and how to make the case and build data products

Christopher Peters

@statwonk

I'd like to help!

I can be a resource for aspiring data scientists/statisticians/programmers. My philosophy is sharing what I've learned along the way.

Feedrico Vaggi

@F_Vaggi

I'm happy to help as well. About to leave for a conference, but I'm happy to talk about academia to industry transition, ML, Python, etc

Sunanda Koduvayur

@sunandakp

I've been doing it outside of Twitterverse. Happy to mentor newcomers. DM me or ask me questions here.

Laura Calloway

@lkcalloway

I teach/promote data literacy at a public library. Happy to answer questions and possibly mentor.

Bryon Aragam

@itsrainingdata

Happy to help with and discuss data problems.

Martin Monkman

@monkmanmh

Happy to share what I know about R, data & methods, public sector/govt data science, random trivia.

(((zwunch)))

@tristanbergh

happy to help with ML, feature engineering, time series in R.

deepnarainsingh

@deepnarainsingh

Always happy to help and mentor others. Mainly work on DL for computer vision and NLP.

Hernando Cortina

@cortinah

happy to help!

Robert Chang

@_rchang

I would love to help as well!

Anand Lakshmanan

@lan24hd

Happy to help !

Cynthia D'Angelo

@dapostrophe

I’d be happy to help, especially for folks in education and those starting out with Shiny apps.

Andrew 🇪🇺

@MrScotchpie

10 years freelance analyst with 8 years R experience. Currently contracted as a R/Shiny dashboard programmer by one of the big Pharmas.

amcasari

@amcasari

I love shining spotlights, helping new people in the community find their tribe, open source data science + repeatable/transparent workflows

d treadaway

@don_treadaway

happy to help

Beto

@humbertosubiza

I am able to help. Just let me know how...

Dick Batka

@Doctor_Dick_MD

Not a "data professional" per se but happy to promote the field and lend an ultra-logical, meticulous viewpoint on workflow, research design

Rafael Lav

@RafaelLav

I am happy to help as well. I am a data scientist with Deloitte and one of the analytics practice leaders (R person).

Nujcharee

@Nujcharee

Hi, I'm a newcomer in #ML #rstats but happy to help with #powerbi #dax #ssas.

Emily Riederer

@EmilyRiederer

I love helping helping people dive into R and its broader ecosystem/toolkit, and, more broadly learn good data analysis practices (e.g. reproducibility, using good workflows.) I'm also happy to help on SQL/databases.

Steph Locke

@SteffLocke

Happy to help folks and have an open booking system for half hour chats to help tackle data problems with folks http://calendly.com/lockedata/officehours

B.

@Chucheria

I would like to help! I have open DMs for English & Spanish questions!👩‍💻

David Meza

@davidmeza1

I am willing to help on knowledge informatics, R, org implementation of DS & getting your mgr to listen to you.

dataewan

@dataewan

Wants to help with python DS stack, and applying data science in business (especially startup environment)

Q McCallum

@qethanm

I've done this sort of thing before. More than happy to keep going. Best for: general data career thoughts, various technical matters.

Ian Blumenfeld

@ianblu1

Would love to help. Questions are best, re skills and commercial applications of ML/DS.

gvdr

@ipnosimmia

postdoc teaching DS @ UBC. Learning Data Science can be 😬🤬. You can do it! 😃 to co-explore any 🤔 involving numbers, codes & words...

boB Rudis

@hrbrmstr

sign me up! #pls

Jeff Hollister

@jhollist

I too am here to help. Gladly take #rstats and #GIS questions. Also happy to talk about my experience doing data sciencey work in fed gov.

Hao Ye

@Hao_and_Y

Ecology postdoc using #Rstats to study dynamics in time series. Interested in: stats, open & reproducible workflows, R package dev.

CBat

@ImADataGuy

Here to help - SAS, SQL, Data Privacy, Presentations, basic GIS, survival analysis, healthcare data, data visualization, EpiInfo 🤓

Jennifer Thompson

@jent103

Biostatistician happy to talk about #rstats, clinical research/public health, reproducibility!

Ted Laderas

@tladeras

Bioinformatics Developer and Assistant Professor at OHSU. Collaborative Informaticist and R/Data Science evangelist. Plays well with others.

Matt Gawarecki

@mattgawarecki

Happy to help with all things SQL and Python!

zachary chetchavat

@chetchavat

SQL, Python, R! I love to talk about the dark world of automating excel w/o vba, DS podcasts, and getting started with DS

abdouglass

@abdouglass

Quant working at a financial institution. Use Python, SQL, R. MS in Business Analytics. Still learning but happy to help as much as I can

Carson Forter

@carsonforter

I'm happy to help! Data Scientist @ Twitch. Lots of R, experiments, and stats.

Amar

@amarnayak

Pleasure! Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Python and operations research.

Mara Averick

@dataandme

Ok I officially would like to help (even if I might be sub-mentor-worthy)— if I don't know answers, I'm pretty good at digging up resources!

Moko58

@moko_58

I have over 15 years in business applications, and 1 year of R and Python for data analysis. Not quite up there but willing to help if I can

Thomas Lin Pedersen

@thomasp85

Everyone is welcome to reach out and I'll help however I can. Mainly expertise with visualisation and anything R

Bhaskar Karambelkar

@bhaskar_vk

Have questions about #Hadoop/#ElasticSearch/#MongoDB/#PostgreSQL/#mySQL/#Oracle or any data storage tech.? Ping me any time!

Jacqueline Nolis

@skyetetra

I can mentor in R, F#, SQL, but most importantly how to present your results effectively in a business setting

Leni Krsová

@lenikrsova

I can help with social media data and marketing data analysis if anyone needs to present their data to clients etc.

Bryan Britten

@britten_bryan

Data Scientist working in local government, using R, Python, and JS/HTML/CSS stack, and I'm more than happy to help in any way I can.

Tim Paris

@tiimparis

I'm available! Talk to me about R or the transition from academia to data science

Dominic Delmolino

@ddelmoli

Always happy to share, answer questions and mentor. SQL expert, Python & R newcomer and all around data wrangler!

Nick Hamlin

@nicholashamlin

I'd be glad to help, esp. w/ any ?s about DS in the #nonprofit or social good space.

jonas kas 🕷

@yonasing

happy to help (starting from data collection e.g from web,and most of ML, analysis & presentation), caution: i am still learning.

TimC_Tech

@tech_timc

Happy to help with remote sensing, image processing, GIS, time series analysis, IOT/Smart Cities, and general data science issues.

Adam Greco

@adamgreco

I am happy to help anyone who uses Adobe Analytics. Here is my LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamgreco/

amit

@VizMonkey

I would like to help too! I can provide help in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

Moran Neuhof

@NeuhofMoran

I'll be happy to help with any question about python and the analysis of any biological data (or any other data, but biology is awesome).

Mubaris NK ⚡️

@Mubaris_NK

I'm more than happy to help. Anything related to ML, DataViz and Data Analysis in Python 🐍

Matthias Raess

@primesty22

would be happy to help with R related stuff and stats 💯👍🏻... e.g. help/ideas for dashboard with #shiny etc... see here http://bit.ly/german_twitter

Radovan Kavicky

@radovankavicky

I'd be glad to help. Especially if the question relates to R, Python or Tableau. Everyone is welcome to reach out and if it somehow involves or combines Data Science, Economics, Finance, Public Policy and Data Visualization... don't hesitate a minute.

ReesMorrison

@ReesMorrison

I would be happy to help edit articles or packages in R (in English). Right, not tech nerdy, but I've been using R for six years and I like to edit.

Peter Kamerman

@painblogR

I'm a biomedical scientist rather than a data professional, but happy to help with R, and especially on matters related to open and reproducible research practices.

Anderson Neisse

@a_neisse

I'm a statistician diving into data science. Anyone can reach me for help with: Statistics; Excel; Excel's VBA; R language; Data analysis; Data visualization; or any mix of these topics.

Chris Eshleman

@eshlemanchris

Economist (non-PhD) using R a lot and I'm glad to help however I can!

Dean Marchiori

@deanmarchiori

Happy to help with tips on cracking into a data science career, being a lone-wolf data scientist in your org, how to structure your analyses and anything R related.

Mark Sellors

@sellorm

I'm happy to help too - especially on anything related to running R in production

Ankit Gupta

@ambivert_tweets

Can help with applied machine learning, natural language processing, user interviews, data instrumentation. This might be of help - crisistextline.org/blog/ava

Jim Leach

@leach_jim

I'd love to help too! I can help with #rstats and SQL/general data wrangling questions, as well as talking about careers in data science/analysis, and how to make an impact as a new starter.

fonzie

@OilGains

If you are working a #rstats project, package, book, or paper, and want to make it fully #reproducible with #Docker containers, I am here to help. Just send me a message.

Martina Pugliese

@m_letitbe

Am a data scientist, can help with any DS topics in general (stats, ML) and/or with meta-DS over how to get in the field/get better. I write some stuff on this here https://martinapugliese.github.io/

shubhankar

@shubhgahlot

Happy to help with problems related to Probability, Statistics and Supervised Machine Learning.

I usually try to put my thoughts here: http://tinkerer.in/wordpress/ and https://medium.com/@ghltshubh

Chintan Shah

@ShahAnalytics

I can also help with data science, machine learning and signal processing. https://shahanalytics.wordpress.com/

nick gaylord

@texastacos

Happy to talk around getting into DS from non-traditional backgrounds, working for startups, working for big non-tech companies, and taking first steps out of academia into industry.

Elias Dabbas

@eliasdabbas

I do online marketing, and have been using data science a lot lately. Happy to help any marketing /social media / business people get started, or navigate the field.
Python, some R

Mohammad R. Tayyebi

@MRezaTayyebi

I can help people with API and almost any type of software solution to interact with users and present their data online. And here it is my website: kouy.ir/tayyebi

niko welch

@niko_ncibotu

Most of my experience is in the field of international development and improving organizational data use (tidying data/stats/GIS/visualizations). Willing to mentor/share experience with those as needed. 👍

Daniel Walter

@notthatdsw

I work in data science for cyber-security, so I love data and visualization and machine learning. But I've also had to swim in data-engineering-infested waters.

Sylvester Duda 💾

@slyduda

I can help with general DS questions. I'm experienced with Python, R, SQL, and Front-End Web for custom visualization. Still learning as well!

Alvin GentREY

@nicobaguio

Helping out mostly with end-to-end DS solution in Python. Data ingests (API, SQL, etc...) > Pandas / Numpy / Sklearn > Plotly dashboards!!!

Nisarg Dave

@TheNisargDave

I can help, I specialize in machine learning, deep learning and AI. I jump in to help in given domains. 😊

Databaaz

@aalokjha

I can help with Machine Learning, classical statistics, NLP, Python & R and whether Data Science as a career would be apt.

Shannon Quinn

@SpectralFilter

Python, Open Science, machine learning, computer vision, and cell biology are my main areas of support. Generally a huge fan of any kind of interdisciplinary research. I’m an assistant professor at University of Georgia so I’m always for discussing new/crazy ideas!

Philippe Walliser

@PhilippeWal

Would love to be on this list as well! My main area of interests: Data Analysis / ML in Python. I have enjoyed so much support from this community over the years... time to give back!

Giuseppe Sollazzo

@puntofisso

I'm head of data for a Gov department, have a background as Lead DevOps, data journalist, Open Data activist. I can offer general data guidance, including data science, engineering, visualization, computational issues, policy/strategy. Tech: Python, AI/NLP, LAMP"

Randy Au

@Randy_Au

I can help with most things, but especially SQL, Data quality, Process and Business analysis

Christopher Yee

@Eeysirhc

Can help with R, Python, SQL, data viz, and general DS/ML questions. Also open to sharing industry life and how to drive strategic business/product direction.

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