Basile Simon
Interactive journalist @thetimes + @airwars + lecturer @cityjournalism PGP: https://t.co/obWvSwQNCq
Basile’s work on Source
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Projects
- From the BBC News Labs: Datastringer
- Covering the European Elections with Linked Data
- How We Are Exploring Mountains of Linked Data at BBC News Labs
Articles by Basile
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From the BBC News Labs: Datastringer
Basile Simon walks through a project sparked at Hacks/Hackers London
Posted onBasile Simon walks through the process of building a new tool that aims to help reporters cover beats, and that was prompted by work by Knight-Mozilla Fellows and a presentation at Hacks/Hackers London.
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Covering the European Elections with Linked Data
An Exploration from the BBC News Labs
Posted onThe BBC News Labs team explores ways of exposing linked data in public-facing election coverage, and encounters some interesting challenges.
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How We Are Exploring Mountains of Linked Data at BBC News Labs
First in a series on BBC News Labs’ data experiments
Posted onI was asked to join BBC News Labs a couple a weeks ago to work on a project that, when it was first briefly explained to me by email, left me clueless about what it was about. (Imagine the discomfort before my job interview with Matt Shearer, Innovation Manager at the Lab.) The project is called #newsVane—and yes, we refer to it with the hash sign every time, don’t ask me why.