Panama Papers: a case for reproducible research, data activism and frictionless data

How many offshores by country?

Hover with the mouse over a territory to view the exact offshores amount, scroll to zoom in/out and drag to move the map.

Tools and Data

This visualization was made using the Agile Visualization platform, that lets you create interactive specific domain visualizations in short time, like this one for the Panama Papers.

This is a simple choropleth map using Panama Papers data, that you can browse in the web. But is also the surface and entry point to an environment that lets you dive into complex phenomena with a unique blend of data, code, development environment and interactive documentation, and with fluid, explorable, and traceable conexions between them. So, this environment is particularly well suited for reproducible research, exploratory computing and live coding.

You are invited to inmerse yourself. Once you have downloaded and executed the environment, it will bootstrap the full experience, getting the published Panama Papers data and small tools to let you explore/play the data.

About

The leak about offshore companies and tax heavens is the biggest one in history upto now in size, reach and complexity, but despite that, the curated data released to the general public is pretty small (~36 Mb of compressed data). This could open an oportunity for a more plural comprenhension and participation of the interested citizens with and approach that combines reproducible research, data activism and frictionless data and could draw some insights and recommended practices and technologies when more information and other research becomes available.

Contact, credits & disclaimer

You can mail me or follow me on Twitter.

This project would not be possible without the the support of mutabiT and Object Profile. Special thanks to Milton Mamani and Peter Uhnak for helping me debugging the SVG reading code.

Data was released by the ICIJ and it is licensed under the Open Database License and its contents under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Its integrity has been preserved, only making changes in format (from CVS to sqlite).

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