Kyle Thomas

Kyle Thomas

VP, Quantitative Analyst II

Bank of America

Biography

Kyle Thomas does data analytics for fun and data wrangling for work. He has an education in the Study of ReligionTM and work experience in finance and valuation. Kyle is a huge fan of R, visualization, and solving problems using analytics. He also finds it strange talking in the third person.

Interests

  • R-Python-SQL
  • R Education
  • Data Visualization
  • Sanskrit

Education

  • Masters of Analytics, 2021

    Georgia Tech

  • Masters of Theological Studies, 2012

    Harvard Divinity School

  • BA in Philosophy and Religion, 2009

    Furman University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

VP, Quantitative Analyst II

Bank of America

Feb 2020 – Present Charlotte, NC

Still Leveraging R-Python-SQL to drive insights into customer value and marketing effectiveness.

Bank of America R Subject Matter Expert. President of R Learning Hive and R In House User Group.

 
 
 
 
 

AVP, Quantitative Analyst I

Bank of America

Sep 2018 – Feb 2020 Charlotte, NC

Leverage the R-Python-SQL stack to drive insights into customer value and marketing effectiveness.

Moderator of the R Learning Hive and Office Hours.

 
 
 
 
 

Research Associate

Harvard Business School

Sep 2013 – Aug 2018 Boston, MA
Worked with Professors Tatiana Sandino and Charles Wang in the Accounting and Management Department.

Recent Posts

Unemployment Data from FRED

Get and plot unemployment rates from FRED
Jun 7, 2020 2 min read R Notebook

TidyTuesday (22): Cocktails

Some brief EDA of the cocktails data; features Upset plot
May 27, 2020 1 min read R Notebook

Scraping Weather Data

A walkthrough for scraping weather data from Wikipedia using an R-Python workflow
Jul 30, 2018 9 min read R Notebook

Norms and Penalized Regression

Some notes on the math behind penalized regression methods liek Ridge and LASSO
Jul 23, 2018 5 min read Explanatory Notes

Quick Guide to Command Line Basics

Before graphical user interfaces (GUI), drag and drop desktops, and voice activated assistances (e.g., Siri), the only way to interact with a computer was through written commands using the command line interface (CLI).
Jan 25, 2018 4 min read Explanatory Note
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Featured Publications

Kyle Thomas, Charles Wang
February 2018 Harvard Business Publishing HBS Case

New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental Analysis with Robo-Analysts

Using machine-learning technology, New Constructs creates cleaned up financial statement data that removes accounting distortions. This powerful data aims to provide unparalleled insights into companies’ true economic picture; used in Business Analysis and Valuation course at Harvard Business School

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Publications

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Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas

Covers equity valuation and corporate governance defenses during a hostile takeover bid; used in Business Analysis and Valuation course at Harvard Business School
Kyle Thomas, Charles Wang, Paul Healy, Penelope Rossano
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Oxxo's Turf War Against Extra Video Supplement

Kyle Thomas, Annelena Lobb, Gerardo Perez Cavazos, Tatiana Sandino
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New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental Analysis with Robo-Analysts

Using machine-learning technology, New Constructs creates cleaned up financial statement data that removes accounting distortions. This powerful data aims to provide unparalleled insights into companies’ true economic picture; used in Business Analysis and Valuation course at Harvard Business School
Kyle Thomas, Charles Wang
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Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams Video Supplement

I directed a film crew in India that documented a local cell phone retailer
Kyle Thomas, Tatiana Sandino
Video

Walgreens and Alliance Boots

Discussion of the financial, regulatory, and societal impacts of Walgreens’ propsed tax inversion after its merger with Alliance Boots
Kyle Thomas, Charles Wang, Ian Gow
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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Logistic Regression in R

Apr 6, 2020 Bank of America

ggplot Extensions

Feb 10, 2020 Univeristy of North Carolina - Charlotte
Kyle Thomas, Greg Gunn

Changepoint Detection in R

Jan 7, 2020 Bank of America

Time Series Clustering Using Dynamic Time Warping

Oct 24, 2019 Bank of America

Intro to Shiny Applications

Oct 1, 2019 Bank of America
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