Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

The Knight News Challenge grant also funded DocumentCloud ( open source newsroom platform for uploading, annotating, sharing documents ), which actually created Backbone.js and Underscore.js. They have a pretty active community. On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Chad Nelson

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

Tom, The Knight funded OpenNews project is not exactly a community but certainly is working along those lines. Their upcoming SRCCON conference seems focused on the same kinds of things code4lib is, but for journalism. Another upcoming conference,

[CODE4LIB] FW: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

round of work by IMLS. Kari -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Cramer Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 11:05 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis The IJNet article

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

com> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 10:17 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis Sheila, Tom - The closest that comes to mind based on a few folks that I know is NICAR, the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting: < https://ww

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

016 11:05 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis > > The IJNet article is particularly interesting—thanks for posting this. > Excerpts like the one below make me wonder if there is a “Code4News” > community, and if s

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

-are-no-longer-using-the-tool-themselves/ Sheila -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Cramer Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 11:05 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis The IJNet

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

Another interesting post on this - this one from Le Monde (in French) http://data.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/04/08/panama-papers-un-defi-technique-pour-le-journalisme-de-donnees/ Owen Owen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

The IJNet article is particularly interesting—thanks for posting this. Excerpts like the one below make me wonder if there is a “Code4News” community, and if so, how do we find and connect with them. It seems we have a lot in common, and maybe a lot to offer each other. MC: What we’ve

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis [named entities]

On Apr 8, 2016, at 5:13 PM, Jenn C wrote: > I worked on a text mining project last semester where I had a bunch of > magazines with text that was totally unstructured (from IA). I would have > really liked to know how to work entity matching into such a project. Are > there

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Jenn C wrote: > I worked on a text mining project last semester where I had a bunch of > magazines with text that was totally unstructured (from IA). I would have > really liked to know how to work entity matching into such a project. Are > there

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

I worked on a text mining project last semester where I had a bunch of magazines with text that was totally unstructured (from IA). I would have really liked to know how to work entity matching into such a project. Are there text mining projects out there that demonstrate doing this? On Fri, Apr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

I think controlled vocabularies can be used to improve text-minning process, to entities recongnition (persons, institutions and critical concepts) ... I think thats... but I'm a not neutral about this because I am developer of a controlled vocabularies tool :) Sorry about my english :/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

On Apr 7, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Gregory Markus wrote: >> from one of the New York Times stories on the Panama Papers: "The >> ICIJ made a number of powerful research tools available to the >> consortium that the group had developed for previous leak >> investigations. Those

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

Hey Sebastian, They go into a lot of detail in this article https://ijnet.org/en/blog/how-icij-pulled-large-scale-cross-border-investigative-collaboration Indeed this is pretty interesting stuff and a good shout out for Blacklight and other OS tools! -greg On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:21 PM,

[CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

Hi everyone, from one of the New York Times stories on the Panama Papers: "The ICIJ made a number of powerful research tools available to the consortium that the group had developed for previous leak investigations. Those included a secure, Facebook-type forum where reporters could post the