Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Developers like the Bellingcat Investigative Tech Team offer plenty of amazing publicly available research tools, such as applications you can use to analyse TikTok hashtags or connect Telegram accounts to phone numbers. These resources can be very useful for journalists and non-technical researchers but might require some technical skills to access. This series aims to introduce you to some of the basics, starting with an introduction to Jupyter Notebooks.
You can read a written guide here: bellingcat.com/resources/2024/03/06/how-code-notebooks-enable-open-source-research

Links noted in the video:
Sample Notebook in Google Collab:
colab.research.google.com/github/bellingcat/open-source-research-notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/methods/intro-to-notebooks.ipynb
Holehe tool Notebook:
colab.research.google.com/github/bellingcat/open-source-research-notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/community/holehe.ipynb
All Bellingcat Notebook tools:
github.com/bellingcat/open-source-research-notebooks
Check out all of our research tools:
GitHub: github.com/bellingcat
Stack Overflow:
stackoverflow.com/.
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