Alan Farahani

Dr. Farahani develops data management, visualization, and analytics tools using open source platforms in Python and R for laboratory and field sciences as part of SciScope Solutions.  These tools help researchers and relevant stakeholders efficiently enter, combine, and retrieve the many kinds of data (numeric, spatial, image, etc.) generated in the course of these projects.  He is also an anthropological archaeologist whose research interests broadly revolve around the theoretical and empirical investigation of the long-term socio-political, environmental, and ecological consequences of agriculture throughout the Holocene.  To investigate these issues, he specializes in the analysis of archaeological plant remains, or paleoethnobotany, as well as the analysis and visualization of data using contemporary computing languages. His research has concentrated on Holocene Eurasia, with emphasis on west Asia (Jordan, Armenia, Iraqi Kurdistan), but has also conducted related fieldwork or research world-wide (El Salvador, Philippines, Spain, California, Arizona, Tunisia).