Investigative Dashboard
- Logo
Investigative Dashboard is an online platform that helps investigators investigators expose illicit ties that cross borders
- URL
- https://investigativedashboard.org/
- Keywords
- database, research support, OCCRP, cross-border, investigative journalism, query, corruption
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- Launch Date
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- Thematic Focus
- Justice
- Issue addressed
- Corruption and crime
- Geographic Focus
- World
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Query
- Yes
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- Yes
- Network Visualisation
- Yes
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
- Approach (How?)
- The Investigative Dashboard has collated a crowd-sourced database, including public records in multiple languages, and scraped data from business registries and official gazettes. The database and documents are searchable, and the dashboard also allows for visualisation, file management and the opportunity to ask adivce from experts.
- Language
- Multiple
- Commissioner
- Google Ideas, Open Society Foundations, USAID
- Publisher
- OCCRP (US)
- Partners
- African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), the International Center for Journalists, and Connectas in the Americas
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- Large Network
- No ( followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- 4654
- Online Rank
- Google: n/a Alexa: 1,216,040 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 40 /100 Marketing Grader Rank: 18/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: Alexa:
- News Source
- Medium
- Offline Audience Reached
- International
- Outcome
- The Investigative Dashboard has helped to facilitate multiple investigations, including Khadija Ismayilova's investigation into the use of public funds for personal gain by Azerbaijan's president and his family, and an investigation into Russian construction giant Velestroj
- Last updated
- 23/12/2015
- Attempts against the project
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Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- https://occrp.org/
- Tool
- Database
- Frontend
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Medium
- Team Experience
- Research
- Some
- Data Science
- Dedicated
- Engineering
- Dedicated
- Design
- Dedicated
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Agile
- Open Source
- No
- Open Data
- no
- Budget
- Contracting
- Risk Planning
- Sustainability Planning
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: https://investigativedashboard.org/about/occrp/
- Plan / Project Design
- https://investigativedashboard.org/about/occrp/
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- List
- Ethical Collection
- Ethical Storage
- Data Collection
- External Sources
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- No
- Data Cleaning
- Expert
- Data Analysis
- Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking
- Data Description
- Basic
- Data Licensing
- N/A
- Ethical Publishing
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode