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OCCRP Data Search Friedrich Lindenberg

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Why data.occrp.org? • Support ongoing investigations to quickly survey material. • Make our collective source material searchable. • Become systematic about persons of interest. • NOT: All of OCCRP’s data needs. There’s also data vault and other tools.

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What does data. do? • Makes Word documents, PDF files, Spreadsheets, Databases and Email archives searchable. • Recognises text in images (OCR). • Controls who can see what documents. • Keeps a list of alerts (“saved searches”) • Checks against a list of people we’re interested in.

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Basic searches What do you want in, what do you want out? Tell the tool.

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Search operators • Exact matches: “Vladimir Putin” • Boolean operators: +aliyev -ilham • Logical links: aliyev AND (ilham OR mehriban) • Proximity: "Bank America"~2 • Spelling errors: aliyew~

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Using facets

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More demos: • Using alerts (and getting rid of them) • Cross-referencing documents and persons of interest

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Automatic research!

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Getting data in! • Leaks, source docs! • Gazettes, Company DBs, Property, Procurement, Blacklists, Sanctions, Court docs, … • Persons of interest! • We can keep a secret :)

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Get in touch: tech@occrp.org