Tom Wilson
Data Scientist
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Wilson is a data scientist based in Edinburgh with 10 years' experience applying R, Python and SQL to government and research problems. He currently works at the Scottish Government after three years at the ONS Data Science Campus, bringing deep geospatial and GIS expertise developed across roles at Forest Research, Esri and British Waterways. His work spans machine learning on satellite imagery, spatial databases and reproducible analytics with Git/GitHub, translating complex spatial data into actionable public-sector insights. Trained with MSc degrees and a background in ecological data management, he combines domain knowledge of environmental datasets with practical production coding skills. Notably, he bridges statutory statistics and applied research, making advanced geospatial methods accessible to policy teams.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at The University of DundeeMSc, MSc at Lancaster University
Github Skills (13)
word2vec6
natural-language-processing5
r-package5
nlp5
r4
training-data4
odbc3
classification3
cran3
database3
machine-learning2
raster2
databases2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tomwilsonsco/rs-chip
Oct 2024 - Apr 2026
Contributions:4 releases, 8 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 6 months
ScotGovAnalysis/RtoSQLServer
May 2022 - Mar 2023
Load R data frames into MS SQL Server databases and modify database tables with R
Contributions:8 releases, 35 commits, 59 PRs in 10 months
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