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Vivian Zhang is the founder and CTO of the NYC Data Science Academy, and also is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University. She is a data scientist who has been devoted to the analytics industry and the development and use of data technologies for several years.
Vivian obtained expertise in data analysis and data management as a senior analyst at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and as a bio-statistician and scientific programmer at the Brown University Center for Statistical Sciences. She is also the co-founder of SupStat Analytics and the NYC Open Data meetup.
Vivian is a programmer and all-around dataholic, and she considers herself a visualization evangelist.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Vivian Zhang and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications Inc. or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
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