Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2015 (https://gijc2015.org/tag/google/)
How do you research thoroughly, save time, and get directly to the source you wish to find? Editor and Cofounder of InfoDOCKET Gary Price, and Research Editor for Investigations at The Intercept Margot Williams, 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.
Today public companies have to provide reports with data, while many private companies do not have to provide anything. Most companies within the oil, gas and mining sector are private, and to get information can be both expensive and time-consuming. Skybox is a new developing tool used to extract information from an otherwise private industry. Using moving pictures on ground level—captured by satellites—you can monitor different areas up close.