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Author: David J. Thomas

I am an Ancient Historian as well as a digital humanist.
David J. Thomas April 1, 2023 RelicQuery 3D Model Sharing Platform Released

Announcement

Not an April Fool’s post I swear! I’ve recently launched a new project, an app called RelicQuery, designed to let […]

David J. Thomas July 5, 2022 Networks of Roman Eleusis v1.0 Released

Announcement

I am very excited to announce the initial release of the complete code rebase of my graduate research project, The […]

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David J. Thomas May 28, 2022 Network Analysis with Gephi and Anglo-Saxons

Tutorial

Exercise: Analyzing historical networks is cool, but getting network data for historians is hard. So try your hand immediately at […]

David J. Thomas May 15, 2022 Scrubbing Grungy DH Data – FL Postcards

Tutorial

Today we are talking about cleaning large project data sets with OpenRefine. We will be using some sample data from […]

David J. Thomas May 10, 2022 A Tale of Two Wars: Iraq & Afghanistan in the Wikileaks Diaries

Demonstration

The following is a demonstration in data scraping and visualization. Check out the full visualization dashboard on Tableau Public! CLICK […]

David J. Thomas May 6, 2022 Course Workbook/Syllabus for HIS4936: Hacking History

Resource

A simple post, but if you are looking to learn some basic DH chops, or if you are a DH […]

David J. Thomas May 5, 2022 Visualizing USF in the News (2011-2016)

Demonstration

On February 1st 2016, USF Libraries hosted a Digital Scholarship Faire. In order to demonstrate how quickly and easily current tools allow new insights, I performed the entire work of the project from data acquisition to visualization within the 48 hours before the faire.

David J. Thomas October 6, 2019 DH Resources and Tutorials Posted!

Announcement

I created a page for a large number of resources, sorted by areas (e.g. text analysis, visualization, et.c.). I will […]

David J. Thomas October 4, 2019 Connecting People and Words in Medieval Documents, with Python!

Tutorial

The Goods: Welcome to my relaunch! This first post is mostly just a link to my project on GitHub, but […]

David J. Thomas September 13, 2019 thePortus Reloaded

Announcement

After a long hiatus, I am relaunching thePortus with brand new content. Check back for significant content updates in the […]

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