Digitial Research Tools for Investigative Reporters

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1. DIGITAL RESEARCH TOOLS for Investigative Reporters / 9.12.2014 / #icfjdigital
2. Intro Friedrich Lindenberg (@pudo) Knight International Journalism Fellow Technologist with Code for Africa, ANCIR Building tools for investigative reporters
3. Agenda Digital Research Tools Why does it matter? Some examples What is still missing?
4. A word on computer literacy
5. What tools? Investigate people and companies Search for data on specific topics Sift through sets of documents Understand data in tables
6. Ukraine in February A team of investigative reporters discover Victor Yanukovych’s personal documents (in his lake)
7. How can we… … digitise the documents? … share and search? … let readers tag documents? … find mentions of people, companies, dates, money? … see how companies and people relate?
8. #1 : DocumentCloud and Overview Manage, share, search and explore large sets of documents http://documentcloud.org | http://overviewproject.org http://sourceafrica.net
11. –An investigative reporter “We're working with 40 GB of XXX and would like to search within the documents for certain keywords (like XXX) so we can identify XXX. Ideally we should be able to tag the docs..”
14. #2 : OpenCorporates and DueDil Finding information on registered companies and their directors. http://opencorporates.com | http://duedil.com
18. #3 : Investigative Dashboard Request company information from commercial databases and conduct on-the-ground research. https://investigativedashboard.org/
21. #4 : Tabula Get data out of PDF files. http://tabula.technology/
24. Why should I use these tools? find better information access obscured data recognize patterns … and how? pick one, make it your own http://bit.ly/icfjdigital
25. Agenda Manage evidence for your story Build an investigative memory Merge data from many places Alerts for a person or company
26. Agenda http://bit.ly/icfjdigital