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

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