Nick Occhipinti

Nick Occhipinti is the data scientist at the Charlotte Urban Institute for the Charlotte Regional Data Trust where he updates and maintains the Institute’s data warehouse. Part of his responsibilities also include looking at new ways to improve current processes such as improvements to record linkage between entities in the different datasets we receive and improving the ingestion process of how data flows from our data partners into the data warehouse.

He is part of a team that is working with a vendor to build out a new cloud solution to house our data warehouse and website. Additionally, Nick assists with research projects and performs the data pulls for the many data requests received for different projects at the Institute.

Nick is a graduate a of UNC Charlotte where he earned his a master’s in data science and business analytics. Nick has spent most of his career in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), where he makes mapping applications and teaches companies use GIS to help meet their business needs and manage their data.