FT Labs ORG

Polyfill to remove click delays on browsers with touch UIs

FTScroller is a cross-browser Javascript/CSS library to allow touch, mouse or scrollwheel scrolling within specified elements, with pagination, snapping and bouncing support.

A polyfill that fixes the inadequacies of CSS column layouts

Multi-line ellipsis made possible

View rendering engine

A Node.js server that accepts audio/video files and transcribes the content

Data compression and decompression support, packing base64 into UTF8 high and low bytes

A view of the FT homepage designed for non-interactive video walls and billboards

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A Node.js module for determining a similarity between handwritten signatures.

Experiment on text summarization techniques and exploring Tensorflow.

Experiment with converting 360videos to VR.

A way to distribute websites to multiple displays

Generate tech-radars based off of Google Spreadsheets

Simple service to convert mp3s to mp4s with images for social networks

exploring Go, aligning some text, looking for poetry, for faux-artistic reasons

A small exploration to try to match handwritten signatures by generating a fingerprint out of the number of black pixels along the Y Axis of the image

take in an rss feed of articles, return a podcast of those articles with automated voices

Image recognition tool

FruitMachine helper that allows different setup and teardown callbacks to be called based on media queries

A Chrome Extension that automagically adds links from RSS feeds to the end of emails sent in the Gmail web client

Three Sixty Video Player powered by Brightcove

A kiosk-enabled app for Chrome to use with FT Labs Screens project

Experimenting with what is possible with via voice commands on the Google Home

Browserify transform that includes text files using `requireText('module/filename')` syntax.

whimsical investigation into use of idioms in news articles

Where possible, deliver audio files to clients using WebTorrent

GPT-2 prototype/investigation

An FT bot

Exploration(s) of summarising and displaying news

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porting the team blog to github pages

some simple, no-nonsense examples of things

Takes *any* JavaScript object and returns a JSON-serializable finite-sized copy of it.

Letters in, sounds out

Recommendation algorithm(s)

Want to find audio content on the FT? No problem!

An API endpoint to gather all of the main images used in FT articles from a provided date range, the last 24 hours for example, and squash them (width wise) to give one condensed image that represents the news. The final result looks similar to a coloured barcode.

Trying out Alexa testing via Mocha

Models built with TensorFlow

An ftdomdelegate plugin for FruitMachine

A FruitMachine helper that binds all the methods in FruitMachine modules to each instance

Chrome extension for Twitter filtering

Make podcasts great again.

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A speed reading demonstration

FruitMachine helper to isolate components from the rest of the DOM tree

Automated quiz api for news in specified date range.

The (newly separated) absorber component of the Ingestion service.

Product Project Summariser

A swiss army knife of various forms of structured comments.

A lambda that provides the reading time from a text and image input.

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A small Node.js app for checking whether or not an audio version of an FT article exists.

exploring a node version of slurp which was a ruby version of a graph db

Get keys for your project

A Node.js app for playing the FT Labs Correlation game

A place for managing audio assets at the FT

A fastdom helper for FruitMachine

It puts the news on your shiny Macbook's Touch Bar

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experiments with simple static pages

A PWA to demonstrate the concept of 'interrogable' articles

A service for ephemerally linking an FT user to a Google Home device

A minimal view of FT content designed for as a HUD for car dashboards

Content scripts for manipulating FT content on the Falon ft.com site

A PoC for having AWS OCR the entire FT Digital Archive

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experiment to build a crossword minisite using Jekyll

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FT Digital Archives

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A service which provides data for high level business consumers for them to react to.

A starting point for future react projects in labs

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A internal template project for getting started with a SAPI based project

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A slack bot for FT staff who are missing the unique experience of the office lifts

Simple Go app which retrieves Capi V2 content without xml tags

Using our newly learnt R skills to the test by trying to get some data from user concept follows

URL and social media sharing

http://labs.ft.com/2015/07/six-degrees-of-angela-merkel/

And api for data by constituency.

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An interface to house all of our TTS explorations and experiments

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Backend application which utilises Amazon's Polly service to convert input text to speech

An interface to allow external 3rd party partners to consume selected FT content.

PoC passively linking images in the printed FT to online content

A home for all currently discarded FT metadata

A Node.js for interfacing with Morar

Let's hook up all of our podcasts to their articles

Takes a carousel url and fires events when the carousel url changes.

General backend for extracting key phrases from a group of elements.

porting some of the GOLANG alignment work into JS

A year of FT News presented as a barcode

XML -> Elasticsearch

Web push, from me, to you. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-daaaaa...

exploring generic taxi pack -esque functionality

Purge an audio file (TTS) and associated metadata

a slice of history: all the banners

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Micro-exploration into distributing the OCRing of the FT Digital Archives across a multitude of users.

Exploration of delivering the FT Archives with map tiles.