About

Background

I received my undergraduate degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where I also competed on the men’s soccer team. After a brief stint working on a data quality/collection team in the sports industry, I transitioned into a data analytics/reporting position in E-commerce at Kohl’s supporting the digital vendor marketing team. In August 2019, my then girlfriend (now wife) and I moved from Milwaukee to Nashville to flee the Wisconsin winters and experience something new. After a spell of consulting and working for Metro Nashville Public Schools and PROC9, I’m now a Senior Data Analyst at Northwestern Mutual.

My professional interests include data visualization, R-programming, and statistics. Out of the office, I enjoy following Spanish soccer and being active. When I’m not outside or traveling, you can find me exploring new music, or homebrewing kombucha.

Links

• My GitHub

Websites

Some useful resources and some great examples of creative data visualization.

• FiveThirtyEight
• Pudding
• Chartr
• Reuters Graphics
• R-bloggers
• R Weekly
• Simply Statistics

Contact

My email address is octhompson19 (AT) gmail (dot) com.

Also feel free to get in touch with me on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About This Site

The structure of this site is inspired by David Robinson’s blog.

It’s powered by Jekyll using the Minimal Mistakes theme. Also inspired by David, all blog posts are compiled with knitr and R markdown using this modified script.

All views and opinions are my own and do not represent my employer.