Projects
👉 Current
Dataharvest
💪 Since 2020 I have been the coordinator of the data skills training at the Dataharvest conference.
Follow The Money
Since 2022 I have been regurarly publishing with Follow The Money as a part of the Brussels desk. Selected publications:
🇪🇺 Almost 1 in 4 EU lawmakers involved in scandals or breaking the law, from harassment to corruption
💶 The US are a major funder of lobbying activities of Europe’s civil society organisations (2023)
🌾 Agricultural millionaires and minimum wages: how European subsidy policy increases inequality (2022)
🇺🇦 Even the ‘useful idiots’ in the European Parliament are distancing themselves from Putin (2022)
👈 2021
Lost in Europe
In the period of 2020-2021 I worked with an European team of journalists reporting on migration, especially children missing in migration. The most story with most impact I worked on was on quantifying the amount of missing children in European asylum centres. The story was initially published in 9 outlets and was republished in news outlets as far as Russia, Syria and South America.
👧👦 Nearly 17 child migrants a day vanished in Europe since 2018
Cities for rent
In 2021 I have co-lead an European collaborative reporting on corporate landlords. As data coordinator, I was collecting, cleaning, and standardizing data from our partner newsrooms. I have also prepared the data for the final data visualisations.
🏆 This project won the European Press Prize.
👈 2020
Kočners Library
In late 2019, reporters at the Ján Kuciak Investigative Center in Bratislava and the Czech investigative reporting platform Investigace.cz, were given access to the complete police case file on the brutal assassination of Martina Kušnírová and Ján Kuciak in 2018. Slovak police and Europol had collected a total of 53 TB of material. The full archive included digital copies of seized computers and phones, footage from security cameras and other evidence.
As a part of the OCCRP‘s data team, I helped to transfer and analyze the information and share it with local newsreporters to produce dozens of articles accross multiple newsrooms.
🏆 This project won the Award of the Investigative Journalism Fund in Slovakia.
Europe’s COVID-19 Spending Spree Unmasked
As COVID-19 hit Europe, the government public spending rules were not adhered to anymore. OCCRP set up an European collaboration collecting and analysing European COVID-19 public tender data. As the data coordinator of the project, I have collected, cleaned and standardized 21 billion euros worth of tender data from 37 countries.
😷 Publication
📊 Background on the data collection (OpenContracting.org)
😺 Github repository with all the data
👈 2019
Pointer
In 2019 I was briefly employed by the Pointer, a pioneer data newsroom of the Dutch broadcast. We combined the expertise of data specialists, coders and designers for each story. See example stories I worked on below (in Dutch):
🍄 The water boards cost three billion euros annually, and you pay that bill
🐦⬛ Rare birds at risk due to nitrogen pollution
📃 Requested a government document? Sometimes you have to wait for years
👈 before 2018
🕺Elvis (map me tender)
I was the initiator and project leader of a data visualisation tool for public spending networks. We set out to visualise all the public spending in Europe as a graph visualisation. See how it worked in this YouTube video, or have a look at the version we made for defence tenders only (in collaboration with the Government Transparency Institute
Investico
Between 2014 and 2018 I have worked as data journalist with the independent platform for structural investigative journalism. See example stories I worked on below (in Dutch):
OneWorld
Between 2014 and 2018 I have worked as data journalist with a small Dutch magazine focused on sustainability and human rights. See example stories I made while working there (in Dutch)
✈️ Did KLM really have a Ghanaian family offset our CO2 emissions?
👩🏽🦽➡️ You can not go to the toilet here
🚂 Sleeping on the rail