I'm at Frontline! + Society Sim Prototype (Patreon)

I mentioned it a few Patreon posts ago, but now it's actually happened – I'm a Knight/Mozilla OpenNews Fellow at PBS Frontline! My name appeared in the credits of their latest documentary on Saudi Arabia this week. Not sure why. I didn't do anything for that documentary, other than watching an early screening and making bad puns

But don't worry, all my work will still be open source/Creative Commons Zero. And the OpenNews Fellowship expects I spend a third of my time on personal projects. In fact, here's a prototype that I'm posting here on Patreon first, that I haven't shown the rest of the Frontline team yet! (...because I'm out of office right now)

Simulation of Political Polarization - WIP

Pretty simple so far! But this prototype isn't just to show political polarization, or group formation. Like how my Sim The World In Emoji was a tool for making cellular automata, I want to make a tool to make social science simulations! (like Parable of the Polygons) I feel like that'd be more interesting, and socially meaningful. Plus I could re-use the tool over and over to make explorable explanations for current events.

See y'all next month!

<3,

~ Nicky