Matthew Butler
Peer Reviewer (Ad Hoc) at Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Butler is a research manager and senior full-stack developer specializing in digital humanities, with 14 years in his current studio role and over 25 years of library and media experience. He builds web applications, text-extraction and transcription tools, and data visualizations that help scholars and cultural institutions publish and analyze archival materials. An MFA-trained intermedia artist and former Bodine Fellow, he blends creative practice with rigorous archival standards and teaches programming, text mining, and digital media at the university level. His research intersects machine learning, NLP, and writing systems—work that surfaces in projects like the International Dada Archive and Fluxus Digital Archives. Colleagues rely on him for translating scholarly needs into reproducible software and workflows, and he still maintains an artist’s studio practice focused on information-systems approaches to conceptual writing. A quirky credential: he holds a certificate in tarot reading, reflecting a long-standing interest in interpretive systems beyond conventional tech domains.
14 years of coding experience
Certificate Web Development, Certificate Web Development at Kirkwood Community CollegeCertificate in Tarot Reading Tarot Cards, Certificate in Tarot Reading Tarot Cards at Psychic Healing AcademyMaster of Fine Arts (MFA) Intermedia & Video Art Digital Worlds Photography, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Intermedia & Video Art Digital Worlds Photography at University of IowaBachelor of Arts (BA) Speech/Drama Art, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Speech/Drama Art at Mount Mercy University
php, javascript, python, r, sql
Github Skills (57)
twitter-bootstrap10
omeka10
ludwig10
bootstrap9
twitter9
linear-regression9
matic9
naive-bayes9
mappings9
addon8
classification8
javascript8
openstreetmap7
nodejs7
ruby7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ui-libraries/omeka-themes
Mar 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
mbutler/TLP
Aug 2016 - Jun 2021
An interactive subway-style map of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Contributions:26 PRs, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
subwaymapludwigopenstreetmap
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