Cara Thompson
Founder Data Visualisation Consultant
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCara Thompson is a data visualisation consultant and founder with over a decade of experience turning complex research and exam data into clear, compelling visual stories. She builds polished, branded dataviz, automates reporting pipelines in R, and coaches teams to adopt reproducible workflows that cut days of work down to minutes. Former Head of Psychometrics at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, she combines psychometric rigour with software engineering practices (Git, automated testing, Agile) to scale high-stakes reporting. Based in Edinburgh, she enjoys making obscure patterns plain and empowering clients to communicate confidently about their own data, drawing on a PhD in psychology and a background in psycholinguistics and academic teaching.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, PGCert in Academic Practice, Postgraduate Degree, PGCert in Academic Practice at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology, Thesis: Sounding sparks: inconguities and aethetics in music and language, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology, Thesis: Sounding sparks: inconguities and aethetics in music and language at University of Leeds
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
rgba10
palette10
color-palette10
graphic8
r8
r-package8
data-visualisation7
static-html7
ggplot6
waffle6
cran5
package5
youtube5
htmlwidgets4
rmarkdown4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cararthompson/VisualisingMFRepresentation
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
cararthompson/silentlines.co.uk
Feb 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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