With the support of MIZ Babelsberg, me and @dot.studio are building an archiving, research, and publishing platform for investigative journalists who deal with web sources.

For newsrooms and teams committed to backing up their reporting.

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Caroline Lindekamp, Olga Patlan, and Basile Simon sit in panel-style chairs discussing.

Thanks to @miz-babelsberg.de, Caroline Lindekamp and Olga Patlan for the conversation and opportunity to present digitalevidencetoolkit.org last evening.

We hope to bring our upcoming digital preservation tool into the hands of journalists, and were happy to present the status of the development.

We worked on a new data model and dataset with @secforcemonitor.bsky.social - and we are publishing the beta today. Our data model allows researchers to uncover time based graph connections, while keeping the sources for each fact.

See the dataset at myanmar.securityforces.info

Proud to launch a new way to explore our complex chain of command information on police, prisons, militaries and militias. myanmar.securityforces.info

Mietwucher: checken und melden! Case Study ⸺ Mit dem Mietwucher-Check Mietwucher einfach prüfen und melden

🔍 Teil des Erfolgs von DIE LINKE bei der #BTW? Der #Mietwucher Check (www.mietwucher.app), den wir entwickelt haben. Wie wir das Wohnlage-Datenchaos entschlüsselt und Fallstricke umgangen haben – erfahrt mehr in unserer Case Study: www.dot.studio/de/notes/cas...

Mieten in Deutschland: App der Linken zeigt mehr als 22.000 bedenkliche Fälle Die Linke macht Wahlkampf und hat einen Vergleichsrechner für Mieten online gestellt. Wer seine Daten eingibt, kann mutmaßlichen Mietwucher direkt den Behörden melden.

The app we programmed has surfaced and reported more than 22,000 cases of rent usury so far!

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Data update: Detailed sourcing for our database of 255,007 U.S. foreign military trainings The U.S. Government is years late with two reports to Congress about which foreign armies it trained between 2021 and 2023. We usually turn these annual reports into data for you. Because there’s n…

Tom Longley and Security Force Monitor updated the database of U.S. foreign military trainings – the data now has detailed sourcing. They also added added data from 1999 and 2000.

securityforcemonitor.org/2024/12/12/d...

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A billboard advertising the launch of the app.

We launched MietWucher, a web-based app that helps people in Berlin, Leipzig, Freiburg, and Hamburg find out if they are paying fair rent or if their rents might qualify as usurous.

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We write about the complexity of this dataset, and how #Datomic, #DataScript, #Clojure, graph knowledge helped us create tools and analysis for research teams.

A stylized image of a command chain.

Today we release a case study – diving deep into our work with Security Force Monitor in 2023 – analyzing chain of command and their links to alleged war crimes.

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GitHub - dot-studio-code/mietspiegel-api: An API to determine the rental index (Mietspiegel) for residential areas in Berlin. An API to determine the rental index (Mietspiegel) for residential areas in Berlin. - dot-studio-code/mietspiegel-api

Berlin just released their 2024 rent index to cap rents — It comes as a PDF with 14k rows.

We did some parsing to make it legible, and made it available through an API : github.com/dot-studio-c... #mietspiegel

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