News Compass
Harvests science journalism from the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph, extracts the citations inside it, and enriches the cited papers against Crossref, arXiv, NCBI and OpenAlex.
Scott Bradley
Senior engineer at Northwestern University's Knight Lab. CTO at Socialcontext.
Engineering notebook at codeandcircuits.com. Work profile on LinkedIn. Code on GitHub.
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What I work on
- Applications & data
- Python services, web applications, APIs, data pipelines, search Socialcontext · News Compass · SearchMinutes
- Language & AI
- NLP, natural language generation, LLM classification Narrative Science · Overstory · ADAMA · Socialcontext Open
- Embedded & hardware
- Sensor nodes, embedded systems, radio networking, power management SensorGrid · Knight Lab
- Systems
- Distributed systems, pipelines, deployment, and infrastructure operations Knight Lab · Socialcontext · InfoLab · Nortel
- Teaching & writing
- Mentoring, grant proposals, peer-reviewed publication CU Boulder · Knight Lab · InfoLab · JournalismAI · Publications
Selected work
Overstory
Current events in historical depth: news coverage gathered into story arcs, each read against the history it continues, the precedents it echoes, and the frameworks scholars use to explain it. Built at Knight Lab.
Socialcontext Open
Open-vocabulary contextual classification: describe the content you want to target in your own words, and see which pages matched and why.