The Fifa Files
| The Sunday Times analysis of leaked files from the FIFA exposing one of the biggest scandals of soccer history | ||
| Home page | http://times-fifafiles-prod.elasticbeanstalk.com/ | |
| Approach | The Sunday Times shared the stories explaining the Fifa Files and what they contain but they also created a visualization of a sample of the emails exchanged by the different protagonists of the scandal, giving the readers an overview of the leaks. | |
| Phase | Released | |
| Tags | FIFA scandal, emails, soccer, sports, stories, Times, journalism, corruption, and corruption | |
| Practices | Organise | |
| Project Start Date | 2015 |
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| Launch Date | 2015 |
| Most Recent Update | 2015 |
| Thematic Focus | Sports |
| Issue addressed | Tracking corruption |
| Geographic Focus | World |
Experience
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| Narrative | true |
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| Query | true |
| Lists | true |
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
| Explore an inbox containing typical examples of some of the millions of documents from the Fifa Files, links to all Sunday Times stories that arose from the leaked documents | |
| Approach (How?) | The Sunday Times shared the stories explaining the Fifa Files and what they contain but they also created a visualization of a sample of the emails exchanged by the different protagonists of the scandal, giving the readers an overview of the leaks. |
| Language | English |
| Commissioner | Self-commissionned |
| Publisher | Sunday Times |
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project.
Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : International Twitter : ( followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : 331K Online Rank : Google: 7 Alexa: 16671 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 65/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 32/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : High Offline Audience Reached : International Outcome : Now that the evidence has been published, Blatter, Platini have been sued. Last updated : 19/10/2015 Attempts against the project : /Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
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Team size and expertise
Team Size : Medium Team Experience : Research : Dedicated Data Science : Some Engineering : Some Design : DedicatedProject Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
Project Methodology : Traditional Open Source : false Open Data : false Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : Sensitive Sustainability Planning : No planningDocumented Practices
Documentation about project practices
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
Data Modeling : Documents Ethical Collection : No guidelines Ethical Storage : Data Collection : Trained Collectors Data Collection : Data Verification : Corroborated Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : false Data Licensing : Restricted Ethical Publishing : Anonymization of sources Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Scrapable