Mining Leaks and Open Data to Follow the Money

                                                  Friedrich Lindenberg
                                                        OCCPR



                                                                 Biography
                                                                 Friedrich Lindenberg leads the data team at OCCRP.
                        Abstract
                                                                 He is responsible for the development of OCCRP Data
    How can data-driven approaches help to un-                   and supports ongoing investigations where data anal-
    cover large-scale corruption in government                   ysis is needed. In 2014/2015, Friedrich was a fellow
    and business? The Organized Crime and Cor-                   with the International Center for Journalists, work-
    ruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a net-                  ing with the African Network of Centers for Inves-
    work of investigative reporters across 45 coun-              tigative Reporting (ANCIR), and in 2013 he was a
    tries that uncovers cases of bribery, theft and              Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow at Spiegel Online in
    money laundering around the world.                           Hamburg. Prior to that, Friedrich was an open data
    To support this, OCCRP has built a unique                    activist, and worked to promote the release of gov-
    data resource covering more than a billion en-               ernment information about public finance, lobbying,
    tities from over 400 data sources, and a suite               procurement and lawmaking across the world.
    of open-source data integration and search
    tools, the Aleph. This allows us to give inves-
    tigative reporters visibility into large amounts
    of evidence, and to perform cross-referencing
    between databases that uncovers evidence of
    wrong-doing. We’ll present the why, what
    and how of this project, and are hoping for
    feedback from the IR community on what our
    next steps could be in order to increase search
    quality and provide better recommendations
    to our investigators.




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