I am David Thomas, a Digital Scholar and Ancient Historian. I teach, advise, and code Digital Scholarship projects. I do full stack web development, network analysis, text analysis, web scraping, data visualization, and more. In addition to teaching at the university level, I have also worked professionally as a public school teacher and as an instructor for an intensive summer camp for gifted children. I have worked with students from middle school through college, and with varied skills, backgrounds, and challenges. As the son of two educators, teaching, whatever the subject, has been my lifelong calling. Above all, I strive to make scholars and students as critical about data as they are about texts.
A full-stack web app to browse and visualize the inscriptions from the Athenian sanctuary of Eleusis in the Roman era. Features user accounts and secure data entry.
Project PageCreated a Python package to allow my students (and any DH students) to quickly perform a large number of operations that they need to use on a regular basis, including loaded and altering different kinds of data, performing text analysis in a number of languages.
Project PageProvided long-term technical oversight and assisted project planning. Redesigned project data models for long term publication on GitHub.
Project PageProvided long-term technical oversight and assisted project planning. Developed project solutions for database design, data entry, and language control.
Project PageCreated a demonstration/tutorial of digital methods which can either be downloaded and run locally, or run in-browser. Demonstration uses Python to analyze about over 2,500 people who appear in almost 500 charters from Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600-900. Tutorial and documentation shows how to scrape data right from the project website, store it in a local database, export data, perform network analysis to find key individuals, and run some basic text analysis.
Project PageA demonstration of how to produce results fast with DH techniques. Originally created for a faire, within a space of just 48 hours every story published about USF worldwide was gathered using a free chrome extension and visualized with Tableau. In 2019, the visualizations and data were revamped and republished.
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