How ICIJ cracked the Panama and the Paradise Papers by Mar Cabra at Big Data Spain 2017

Leaked data is getting to journalists at a massive scale and they're too, using technology and big data techniques to expose wrongdoing and corruption, like in the Panama and Paradise Papers investigations.

https://www.bigdataspain.org/2017/talk/revolutionizing-investigative-journalism-with-open-data

Big Data Spain 2017
November 16th - 17th Kinépolis Madrid

Transcript

27. We got lucky! Thanks to tech Photo: 8ShroomFairy8
28. Rigoberto Carvajal Emilia Díaz-Struck Cécile Schilis-Gallego Matthew Caruana Galizia Miguel Fiandor THE “PAPERS DATA SUPERHEROES” Jorge González Julien Martin Pierre Romera Manuel Villa Mar Cabra
31. queue AWS machines extracting text from files with Ubuntu + Tesseract + Extract index
32. The “Watergate-type reporter” Investigated the President (Paraguay) The developer Knows all about data (France) Skills Needs
33. Investigative social networking
34. Radical sharing
35. +400 journalists
36. Investigative e-discovery
39. 4 journalists, 7 ½ years of their life
42. Investigative graphs
45. Interactive link
46. https://offshoreleaks.icij.org
48. It’s not even the tip of the iceberg Photo: Ben O’Bryan
49. TO DO • Entity extraction • Email pattern analysis • Content & data mining • Other leaks in data silos • Machine learning • Matches with other document collections • Alerts with real time news • Investigative recommendations • ...
50. Photo: jessica Let’s stop playing bingo! Mar Cabra International Consortium of Investigative Journalists mcabra@icij.org