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DIGITAL RESEARCH TOOLS for Investigative Reporters / 9.12.2014 / #icfjdigital
Intro Friedrich Lindenberg (@pudo) Knight International Journalism Fellow Technologist with
Code for Africa, ANCIR Building tools for investigative reporters
Agenda Digital Research Tools Why does it matter? Some examples
What is still missing?
A word on computer literacy
What tools? Investigate people and companies Search for data on
specific topics Sift through sets of documents Understand data in tables
Ukraine in February A team of investigative reporters discover Victor
Yanukovych’s personal documents (in his lake)
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?
#1 : DocumentCloud and Overview Manage, share, search and explore
large sets of documents http://documentcloud.org | http://overviewproject.org http://sourceafrica.net
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–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..”
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#2 : OpenCorporates and DueDil Finding information on registered companies
and their directors. http://opencorporates.com | http://duedil.com
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#3 : Investigative Dashboard Request company information from commercial databases
and conduct on-the-ground research. https://investigativedashboard.org/
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#4 : Tabula Get data out of PDF files. http://tabula.technology/
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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
Agenda Manage evidence for your story Build an investigative memory
Merge data from many places Alerts for a person or company
Agenda http://bit.ly/icfjdigital