Top 10 Data Research Tools for Investigative Journalists
The Intercept, shared their Top 100 Data Research Tools. Overwhelmed with information; we asked Williams and Price to refine their tools and research strategies down to a Top 10. Read more.
Nik Peachy: EasyBlog.org Educational Tool
IO Tools
A ‘made for education' blogging platform.
The world’s easiest platform for classroom blogging, ePortfolios and parent communication.
Antechinus: Librem 15 – Trusted Laptop
IO Tools
The Purism Librem 15 is the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications. All other laptops use hardware chips coupled with software that can betray you. News stories have shown how these chips can surreptitiously transmit voice, networking, picture or video signals. Other chips are used to install spyware, malware or viruses. These built-in vulnerabilities can turn “your” computer into “their” computer. Only by selecting each and every chip in our Librem laptops can we guarantee your privacy, security and freedom are protected.
Nik Peachy: Corpkit tool for investigating text
IO Toolscorpkit: a tool for investigating text
corpkit is a tool for doing corpus linguistics. It does a lot of the usual things, like parsing, concordancing and keywording, but also extends their potential significantly: you can concordance by searching for combinations of lexical and grammatical features, and can do keywording of lemmas, of subcorpora compared to corpora, or of words in certain positions within clauses.
Stephen E. Arnold: Web Crawling ToolKit
IO Tools
Short Honk: Crawl the Web at Scale
Short honk: I read “Aduana: Link Analysis to Crawl the Web at Scale.” The write up explains an open source project which can copy content “dispersed all over the Web.” Keep in mind that the approach focuses primarily on text. Aduana is a special back end for the developer’s tool for speeding up crawls which is built on top of a data management system. Read more.
Direct to Tool: Scrapinghub Platform
Berto Jongman: 37 Best Websites to Learn Something New
04 Education, IO ToolsThe 37 best websites to learn something new
Online courses; learn how to code, learn how to work with data, learn new languages, expand your knowledge, and more.
Berto Jongman: IDA on Global Coverage — Without Reference to Prior Art or the Real World
Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, IO Tools, Non-GovernmentalWithout reference to Boyd Sutton or anyone else of note.
Rethinking the Concept of Global Coverage in the U.S. Intelligence Community
Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2015
