[ddj] Detective.io now open for all

Wed Sep 10 09:09:28 UTC 2014

Dear data-driven journalism enthusiasts,

We're happy to announce that anyone can now request an account to the beta
of Detective.io, a tool to organize data-driven investigations. (We'll
activate accounts as they come in).

We developed Detective.io for the investigations done by Journalism++ over
the past two years, such as one on innovative development projects, another
one on migrants dying coming or trying to stay in Europe (The Migrants
Files) and an upcoming one on the links between oligarchs of a small
country.

After months of hard work, we made it flexible enough to welcome any
investigator. Once logged in, you can choose a data model (we have one for
body counting and one for analyzing corporate networks right now) and start
adding information. We plan on making money by charging for the creation of
custom data schemes.

Under the hood, we tried to make the power of graph databases available to
any journalists. We're running Neo4j with Django, and all the code is
available on Github.

Tutorials will come soon, in the meantime to hesitate to ping us if you
have any questions!

Nicolas Kayser-Bril
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