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I've been working on a project called Aleph (https://github.com/pudo/aleph https://github.com/pudo/aleph, live: http://data.occrp.org/ http://data.occrp.org/),
by pudo 10y ago
I've been working on a project called Aleph (https://github.com/pudo/aleph https://github.com/pudo/aleph, live: http://data.occrp.org/ http://data.occrp.org/), which is targeted at investigative reporters. It's supposed to handle a related set of problems, which is data integration of diverse public records and journalistic lead generation (i.e. what to investigate next). The road map for the coming two years includes some visual analytics similar to what I guess most people use Palantir for (we'll have to keep it very simple).
The big problem in NGO space is obviously finding engineers: we've got some budget for this stuff, but getting people to join us, work at a lower salary and then code their heart out (because teams are tiny) is hard.
On the fun side, you get to see your code applied to fighting real-world problems every day :)
- mrmondo 10y agoThis looks really very interesting! Thank you for the link, I think I might have a few use cases for this if it's easy to work with.
- aerovistae 10y agoBorges?
- pudo 10y agoI feel Borges' Aleph is the more charming and less creepy version of Tolkien's Palantir :) Strive for knowledge, not control.
- justusw 10y agoI would love to try out your tool, but I'm getting a 504 Gateway Time-out on http://data.occrp.org/ http://data.occrp.org/. Is there any chance I can give Aleph a spin?
- pudo 10y agoYeah we have a scheduled maintenance right now (hello, Docker friends!). Should be back in 10-15min. There's also some other instances: http://aleph.openoil.net/ http://aleph.openoil.net/ http://opengazettes.org.za/ http://opengazettes.org.za/