about.qmd

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twitter-card:
  image: images/profile-preview.png
  creator: "@thomas_mock"
open-graph: true
title: "Tom Mock"
description: |
  Be humble, hungry and kind. 
  Be so good they can't ignore you.
image: images/profile-preview.png
about:
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  links:
    - icon: twitter
      text: Twitter
      href: https://twitter.com/thomas_mock
    - icon: github
      text: Github
      href: https://github.com/jthomasmock
    - icon: mastodon
      text: Fosstodon
      href: https://fosstodon.org/@thomas_mock

---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```


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# Education

* Bachelor's degree from Southwestern University (where I thought I wanted to be a Physical Therapist).
* Master's degree from Florida Atlantic University (where I realized I actually really liked data and making graphs)
* Doctorate from UNT Health Science Center (where I realized I really didn't like academia, but still really liked data, graphs, and now R)

## Current State

I fell in love with R and data science through my graduate research, using R and RStudio to wrangle, analyze, model, and visualize my data. I became passionate about growing the R community, and founded [`#TidyTuesday`](https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/master/README.md) to help newcomers and seasoned vets improve their `Tidyverse` skills.

I am the Customer Enablement Lead at Posit, helping our customers be as successful as possible with RStudio software in their environment.

In my home town of San Antonio, my wife and I run on the local trails, play with our Boston Terrier “Howard”,<img align="right" width="95" alt="A pixel art image of my dog howard - he's a black and white Boston Terrier" src="howard.png">  spend lots of time with our local families, grill/smoke plenty of meat, and are always on the lookout for great new food, especially churros. 

## Contact

You should definitely just tweet `@` me [`@thomas_mock`](https://twitter.com/thomas_mock).