Check out my Github.
Contact:
@basilesimon on Twitter, or basile@basilesimon.fr
My PGP key is here, with this address: bsimon@imap.cc
Talks:
Hackathons:
Working with BBC News Labs on many things during the day, and on Airwars.org by night.
Monitoring coalition airstrikes against Islamic State (Daesh) in Iraq and Syria. Tracking civilian casualties. Archiving war reports. And counting the numbers. In partnership with Chris Woods.
Don't miss our website.
A collection of tools to monitor deleted tweets, automate screenshotting, and archiving. Some people shouldn't be allowed to get away with deleting things that are in the public interest.
Read why and how on my blog and grab the tools from the Github repo.
A proof-of-concept software to monitor changes in a dataset... with journalistic criteria in mind. Expect some Javascript and bugs.
Read on Source or have a look at the Github repo.
An interactive graphics visualising US drone strikes victims in Afghanistan and Pakistan identified by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism's Naming the Dead project.
Article and visualisation on the Bureau's website, code and data on Github.
A tiny radio FM transmitter hacked on a Raspberry Pi, which can interact with a webapp to broadcast local content. Bring the web on air, create your own local radio!
Hacked during Al Jazeera's hackathon in Qatar, with Thomas Parisot and Alexandre Vallette. The code is on Github.
Media coverage study of the 2014 EU elections in the UK, based on BBC Linked Data. Demo done with Iain Collins.
Read more on Source, the OpenNews blog.
Yet another solution for interactive videos. Hacked together at Mozilla Paris Popathon with Paul, Max, and Michael.
Demo is here, don't miss the Pancarte.js repo.