Best examples of data journalism and computational journalism projects around tax?

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I’m starting this thread for anyone who is interested in following data journalism and computational journalism projects around tax, with an initial focus on projects to come out of #PanamaPapers leak as stories unfold over the coming weeks.

For starters, here is a collection of statistical graphs from the ICIJ created by Rigoberto Carvajal, Mar Cabra, Álvaro Ortiz and Fernando Blat: Explore the Panama Papers Key Figures - ICIJ

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And here are a series of accompanying network graphs showing how different figures implicated in the leak are connected through various legal entities: The Power Players: Politicians in the Panama Papers - ICIJ

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I’ve also started a list of investigation into corporate tax avoidance here, which we’ll be adding to as part of the Open Data for Tax Justice initiative.

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Here are a few infographics from the Guardian giving an overview of the scale and geography of the leak: What are the Panama Papers? A guide to history's biggest data leak | World news | The Guardian

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A piece in Wired with a bit more detail about how the 11.5 million documents were analysed:

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A couple of infographics in the Irish Times:

Links to graphics in CartoDB:

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Some network graphs from Fusion:

http://fusion.net/story/287382/panama-papers-data-visualization/

As part of their interactive piece here:

http://interactive.fusion.net/dirty-little-secrets/

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Another “behind the scenes” piece by Nieman Lab:

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A few examples from the Süddeutsche Zeitung…

Network diagram to highlight connections:

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Map showing jurisdictions implicated:

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Scale of leaks:

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Putin’s network:

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Another couple of “behind the scenes” pieces looking at what journalists at Le Monde did with the data:

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Hi all,

I’ve been following the topics and data journalism projects and I know that The Guardian posted a nice visualisation on tax havens and capital flight already four years ago.

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An interview with data journalist Mar Cabra (who was involved in the project): The People and Tech Behind the Panama Papers - Features - Source: An OpenNews project

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A couple of pieces on Panama Papers investigations from network analysis software vendors (via @pudo):

https://linkurio.us/panama-papers-how-linkurious-enables-icij-to-investigate-the-massive-mossack-fonseca-leaks/

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Some video explainers: http://visualoop.com/blog/94262/viz-on-video-25

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Few examples are network diagram to connect the highlights

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We took an alternative look to the Panama Papers from the point of view of reproducible research, frictionless data, data activism and citizen engagement. Maybe it can be interesting for you:

Cheers,

Offray