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OCCRP Data
Getting started with
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A platform for investigative reporters
working on cross-border cooperations.
What is OCCRP Data?
https://data.occrp.org
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What is OCCRP Data?
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Search through hundreds of leaks and
scraped databases.
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Leaks, court documents, news archives,
company registries, persons of interest,
gazettes, customs declarations, licenses
and concessions, sanctions lists, land
registries, procurement awards, voter
databases, regulatory filings, air and
maritime registers
300+ datasets
27,000,000+ documents
450,000,000+ entities
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Get an overview
of the archive
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We map all data into a common language of
corruption investigations: companies,
people, contracts, emails, documents…
How does it work?
• We import leaked data from confidential
sources and the open web.
• To add context, we also regularly scrape
over 200 online sources.
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Backgrounding
• If a person is sanctioned or involved in
politics, crime.
• Mentions in historic leaks like Wikileaks
Cables, ICIJ, HackingTeam, Kazaword, …
• Many official documents from offshore
jurisdictions, Eastern Europe, and Africa.
Quick way to check:
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Register to get
more access.
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Preview
Quickly view
search results
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What is OCCRP Data?
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A secure place to upload and search
your own documents.
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Upload
Share and search
your documents
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Upload
PDF, Word, Excel, E-Mail, PST, mbox, Zip,
RAR, Tarballs, 7z, Access, SQLite, DBF, ODS,
ODF, CSV, images, TIFF, video and audio
metadata, XML, plain text, etc.
We import and preview a wide range of
document types, and do image text
recognition and entity extraction for:
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Additional datasets are available to trusted
reporters. You will be granted access when
you work on a major OCCRP cooperation.
Access Control
Datasets can be shared publicly, with
project teams or individual users. Reporters
can also upload and share documents.
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What is OCCRP Data?
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Find links between all documents, people
and companies in our archive
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Documents, people
and companies are
connected through
tags, such as
names, emails,
phone numbers,
address or even
IBAN numbers.
Finding links
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We perform cross-referencing on large sets
of data, e.g. to match all of a country’s
parliament to leaked offshore finance,
luxury real estate or foreign company
ownership.
Finding links
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Finding links
Link entities
across sources
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Use the technology
The technology behind OCCRP Data, Aleph,
is a re-usable open source package.
We support technologists to set up a copy
in-house, or on your own servers.
Contributions, translations and ideas:
https://github.com/alephdata
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https://data.occrp.org
Contact: [email protected]
Open source: github.com/alephdata
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“Truth cannot penetrate a
closed mind. If all places
in the universe are in the
Aleph, then all stars, all
lamps, all sources of light
are in it, too.”
J.L. Borges