Thomas Keller
Computational Biologist
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Keller is a computational biologist with a decade of experience turning messy biological data into publishable insights, authoring or co-authoring 14 peer-reviewed papers across bacterial, viral, and evolutionary epigenetics research. Based at the University of South Florida, he supports and trains researchers on high-performance computing, mentors students, and contributes directly to code, grants, and publications. Equally comfortable in Python and R (including Bioconductor), he applies machine learning and statistical methods to genomics and clinical outcome questions, and has extended that skillset to social data projects like Twitter analysis. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the rtweet R client to enhance Twitter data accuracy, reflecting a practical focus on reliable data retrieval. Outside the lab he’s an avid cyclist, rock climber, and DSLR photographer, and he writes about programming and statistical lessons from his research on his website.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Integrative Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor’s Degree, Zoology/Animal Biology, Magna cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Zoology/Animal Biology, Magna cum Laude at University of Florida
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
data-manipulation10
apim10
api10
twitter-api10
r10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ropensci-archive/rtweet
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
🐦 R client for interacting with Twitter's [stream and REST] APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `rtweet` R client for Twitter's APIs. They implemented new features, such as including retweet counts in stream data. Several commits involved modifying the `tweets_and_users.R` file to correct and add fields related to retweets and quoted tweets, specifically dealing with the `source` information and `full_text` usage. These changes reflect a focus on improving data retrieval and ensuring data accuracy in the Twitter API interactions.
resttwitterr
thomas-keller/atacseq-snakemake
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:112 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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