@openlab

Journalism, Technology, and the Arts

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined October 2015
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The Twitterverse Of Donald Trump In 26,234 Tweets bzfd.it/2P8JpZw

The Twitterverse Of Donald Trump In 26,234 Tweets

How you can scrape social data and analyze it

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Director's Cut: How We Filmed The Giants' Opening Day In 360-Degree Video bzfd.it/2KTMfyt
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New & very exciting —> The Field Guide to Security Training in the Newsroom, written by an incredible team. It’s for anyone looking to train newsroom colleagues on security literacy. source.opennews.org/articles…

Introducing the Field Guide to Security Training in the Newsroom

A collaboratively written guide that helps trainers train their colleagues

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Anyway, shout out to @openlab and @obtusatum buzzfeed.com/loganwilliams/l…

We Built A Fake Cell Phone To Track Clandestine Surveillance

IMSI catchers, or “Stingrays,” are increasingly being used to surveil private citizens in public. The Open Lab recently deployed a device for detecting these fake cell towers in use. You can build...

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‘Tis the night before Christmas And Santa is prowling We know that he’s close ‘Cause the wolves are all howling!
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8 Electronic And Hardware Components Worth Scavenging bzfd.it/2yS79vC

8 Electronic And Hardware Components Worth Scavenging

And what you could maybe, probably, most-likely do with them

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Lessons In Civic Prototyping bzfd.it/2hnZPhr

Lessons In Civic Prototyping

My thought process in building tools for civic spaces.

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Better Freaking Documentation bzfd.it/2yWuIDI

Better Freaking Documentation

It’s Important, ya know?

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A Recap Of Year Two, In Print. bzfd.it/2hsviPN

We Made A Zine (also, Thank You!)

The Open Lab closed out our second year with a hand drawn zine. ✍️?✏️

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A Recap Of Year Two, In Print. bzfd.it/2hsviPN

We Made A Zine (also, Thank You!)

The Open Lab closed out our second year with a hand drawn zine. ✍️?✏️

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Better Freaking Documentation bzfd.it/2yWuIDI

Better Freaking Documentation

It’s Important, ya know?

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Lessons In Civic Prototyping bzfd.it/2hnZPhr

Lessons In Civic Prototyping

My thought process in building tools for civic spaces.

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Chrome Extension Highlights Alt-Right Vocabulary bzfd.it/2hmCe0y

Chrome Extension Highlights Alt-Right Vocabulary

For the past eight months, I’ve studied the alt-right. Francis Tseng and I built a Chrome extension to highlight words that have special meaning in their online forums.

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8 Electronic And Hardware Components Worth Scavenging bzfd.it/2yS79vC

8 Electronic And Hardware Components Worth Scavenging

And what you could maybe, probably, most-likely do with them

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And @openlab will be chirping out everyone's wrap-up posts over the next few days, so you can recreate our work for yourself.
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A little #ff #FollowFriday on the @openlab fellows last day... @lamthuyvo will show you how to find great data hiding in plain sight.
Definitely follow @obtusatum @afrodjiak and @cthydng as they they wrap up their Fellowship projects today. Lots of great tools you can use.
Here's What We Learned From Staring At Social Media Data For A Year bzfd.it/2gT2iAk

Here’s What We Learned From Staring At Social Media Data For A Year

How filter bubbles skew our views, how automation sways social dynamics, and other dystopian things BuzzFeed News learned while exploring data from the social web.

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If you missed Open Lab alum @AAAinsley on how VR gets empathy all wrong, you should go read up now: bzfd.it/2im93yh

No, VR Doesn’t Create Empathy. Here’s Why.

The VR industry loves to tout itself as an engine for transmitting human experience — but it’s operating with a muddy, superficial, and self-serving definition of empathy. Here’s how it can be better.

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🔮The 2017 Open Lab fellows are on their last week in the lab! You should text (530) 212-6073 for a random fortune before they go. 🔮
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