Alexa Zylstra graduated with Data Science Cohort 4.

The thing that drew me to data science was the collaborative environment, data narrative story-telling, and a chance to work with numbers. As a STEM major, I graduated college with the choice of academia or industry. Choosing neither, I worked for a glasses start up where I got to wear many different hats. I tried on the data exploration hat and found that it fit really well. After some research, I found out that Nashville Software School had a program committed entirely to data science. Combining people skills and numbers is a rare find, and I’m excited to further my data science knowledge by working with a diverse, talented group of people.