Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
I design digital tools and methods for data collection and analysis, particularly around the web and parliamentary life.
Technical Director - Research Engineer
- Mastodon: @boogheta@piaille.fr
- Bluesky: @boogheta.bsky.social
- Github: @boogheta
- E-mail: benjamin.ooghe@sciencespo.fr
As a multidisciplinary engineer from École Centrale de Lyon, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou specialises in applying computer science to scientific research. After multiple experiences within the astrophysics field at Johns Hopkins University in the USA and École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Benjamin enters the social sciences field as an OpenData and Parliament transparency activist by participating in 2009 to the creation of the NGO Regards Citoyens and the website NosDéputés.fr.
He joins the médialab among the DIME Web team in June 2012 as a webmining expert and develops free software tools to harvest and explore data for social sciences such as the webcrawler Hyphe and the datascape TheLawFactory.fr.
He supervises the technical team of research engineers of médialab since 2020.