[liberationtech] Controlling Human Rights Research

[Seth David Schoen]

cantona7 at hushmail.com writes:

> On the same note, we are collecting very significant amounts of 
> information at the moment on incidents, victims and perpetrators. 
> We are looking for very advanced ways of managing, visualising, 
> data-mining and pattern analysis. Though we are a human rights 
> organisation, weI have looked at how policing and intelligence 
> organisations manage such information and that generally means 
> packages such as Sentinal Visualiser and i2 Analysts notebook. 
> While this offer many of the things that we owuld like to do, they 
> are eye-wateringly expensive! Does anyone know of similar options 
> which are cheaper and/or free/open source?

You should talk to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group at Benetech,
which develops and uses free software to do this kind of work.

http://www.hrdag.org/

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Seth Schoen
Senior Staff Technologist                         schoen at eff.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation                    https://www.eff.org/
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