FT Labs
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Portfolio concentration
41%
Top three share
Shows whether the organization is driven by one breakout repo or several visible projects.
Breadth
30 repos
Visible snapshot
0 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Leading language
JavaScript
Portfolio mix
JavaScript (25), Python (1), Handlebars (1)
Average size
1
Stars per repository
Useful for distinguishing one flagship-heavy publisher from a repeatable portfolio.
Updated: 2021-02-15(2069d ago)GitHub API fallback30 repositories
41%
of the visible star count comes from this organization's top three repositories.
1
stars per repository in this same snapshot.
JavaScript
is the most common language here, with 0 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Why this rank
This organization stands out because its public portfolio is relatively balanced across 30 repositories.
Balanced portfolio across 30 reposTop 3 share 41%
Organization pages work best when you separate portfolio breadth from flagship concentration. In FT Labs's case, the visible top three repositories account for about 41% of total stars in this snapshot, which helps explain whether the organization is known for one breakout project or for a broader repeatable portfolio.
The dominant language mix here is JavaScript (25), Python (1), Handlebars (1). That makes this page useful not just for popularity checks, but also for seeing what technical shape an organization's public ecosystem actually has.
Top Repositories
| # | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ftlabs/idiom-explorer whimsical investigation into use of idioms in news articles | JavaScript | 3 |
| 2 | ftlabs/gpt2-gui GPT-2 prototype/investigation | Python | 3 |
| 3 | ftlabs/overview Exploration(s) of summarising and displaying news | JavaScript | 3 |
| 4 | ftlabs/suggestr Recommendation algorithm(s) | JavaScript | 2 |
| 5 | ftlabs/barcode 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. | JavaScript | 2 |
| 6 | ftlabs/correlations-game-test Trying out Alexa testing via Mocha | JavaScript | 2 |
| 7 | ftlabs/speed-read A speed reading demonstration | JavaScript | 1 |
| 8 | ftlabs/PPS Product Project Summariser | JavaScript | 1 |
| 9 | ftlabs/order-order A swiss army knife of various forms of structured comments. | JavaScript | 1 |
| 10 | ftlabs/ft-quiz Automated quiz api for news in specified date range. | JavaScript | 1 |
| 11 | ftlabs/time-to-read A lambda that provides the reading time from a text and image input. | JavaScript | 1 |
| 12 | ftlabs/left | Handlebars | 1 |
| 13 | ftlabs/inshort | JavaScript | 1 |
| 14 | ftlabs/liFT A slack bot for FT staff who are missing the unique experience of the office lifts | JavaScript | 0 |
| 15 | ftlabs/channel-status-notifier | JavaScript | 0 |
| 16 | ftlabs/status-notifier | JavaScript | 0 |
| 17 | ftlabs/top-stories-podcast | JavaScript | 0 |
| 18 | ftlabs/constituency-api And api for data by constituency. | JavaScript | 0 |
| 19 | ftlabs/sentiment | JavaScript | 0 |
| 20 | ftlabs/hackathon_team_b | JavaScript | 0 |
| 21 | ftlabs/user-concept-follows-playground Using our newly learnt R skills to the test by trying to get some data from user concept follows | Shell | 0 |
| 22 | ftlabs/barcode-year A year of FT News presented as a barcode | JavaScript | 0 |
| 23 | ftlabs/key-phrases General backend for extracting key phrases from a group of elements. | 0 | |
| 24 | ftlabs/template-react A starting point for future react projects in labs | HTML | 0 |
| 25 | ftlabs/hackathon-corporate-actions A service which provides data for high level business consumers for them to react to. | JavaScript | 0 |
| 26 | ftlabs/ftldr | JavaScript | 0 |
| 27 | ftlabs/JanetBot-API-tester | JavaScript | 0 |
| 28 | ftlabs/alexa-tester | JavaScript | 0 |
| 29 | ftlabs/alignmentJS porting some of the GOLANG alignment work into JS | JavaScript | 0 |
| 30 | ftlabs/template_SAPI A internal template project for getting started with a SAPI based project | JavaScript | 0 |
Next step after the organization read
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