Hi! I’m Sam.
Here’s some info about me:
- I’m from Denver, CO
- I live in Portland, OR now, but in the past I’ve lived in Samsun, Turkey; Chicago, Istanbul, and Paris
- I studied statistics 📈 and Turkish 🇹🇷 at the University of Chicago, where I also worked as a research assistant with Dr. Rena Conti modeling the effect of hepatitis drugs on the market for donor organs
- I now work at Graphika (located in NYC, although I still live in Portland) as a data engineer! I spend my days writing lots of Python, and am looking forward to also wrestling with AWS.
- I used to work for Cascade Data Labs in Portland.
- Some of the cooler unpaid things I’ve done in the past include newspaper layout design and editing, ski patrol, and organizing the University of Chicago climbing club
- The one cool unpaid thing I’m doing now is helping organize the Portland PyData group
- In my free time, I enjoy climbing 🧗, running 🏃♀️, cooking 🍪, travelling ✈️, and learning new things 📚
Contact me!
You can email me at sam at samhoffman dot me*, or you can find me in a variety of locations on the internet:
- @upwards_graph on Twitter
- @hoffman.content on Instagram
- sam-hoffman on GitHub
- On LinkedIn
* or any word of your choice, like dogs at samhoffman dot me! feel free to use a cool word, or whatever you want to talk about
What's up with this website?
Although my day job is in data wrangling, this website is a product of my efforts to teach myself new skills, particularly around web design. In the long term, I’m interested in acquiring the skills to make web-based data visualizations with D3 and other JavaScript tools.
This website is an about me and hopefully soon a portfolio, but it’s also an experiment and a learning tool. I made this site basically from scratch with Jekyll. As this is the first project I’ve ever done with HTML and CSS, I welcome bug reports/comments/critiques and questions - feel free to contact me through any of the options above.