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    Sarah Schmalbach is senior product manager at the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab.
    Journalist, quantify thyself
    “We could use natural language processing tools to examine the tone of our coverage over time. We could use maps to gauge how much time we spend covering communities and where our sources are from.”
    April 2, 2019
    Taking local news to the really local level: Using location data to deliver relevant local news
    “We were glad to see hundreds of people install the app and also give it permission to access their location and motion.”
    February 20, 2019
    How the Lenfest Local Lab used texting to inform Philadelphians about election issues
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