Third Place : 451 Corporate Risk Miner, developed by Elena Dulskyte, Marko Sahan, and Peter Zatka-Haas from ComplyAdvantage, is a dashboard for visualising corporate ownership structures from UK Companies House data and analysing several risk signatures that could suggest financial crime. Judges liked its novel combination of existing capabilities (GitHub Issues and GitHub Actions) and lack of need for installing any software, as well as its potential to allow developers to easily create and modify interfaces for similar workflows. The example displayed for the hackathon was a command that transcribed a specific YouTube video using OpenAI’s Whisper model.
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Second Place : Action Transcription, developed by Simon Willison (the creator of Datasette ), is a framework for using the GitHub web interface to allow users to easily and automatically run software commands. Ī screenshot of OSM Finder showing a user specifying the angles of two bridges over a highway. The tool has the potential to offer much more than merely filtering by proximity, a feature that is already available using OpenStreetMap’s Overpass Turbo API. Judges liked OSM Finder’s easy-to-use interface, its potential for partially automating geolocation workflows, (a challenge Bellingcat has long been interested in) and its novel use of filtering by angle and distance between map features. For example, if an image shows a highway with two bridges across it at approximately 90 and 65 degrees which are separated by between 200 and 1,000 metres somewhere in Massachusetts, those specifications can be inputted into the tool to search for results. It has the potential to be used by researchers to narrow down possible locations when geolocating a picture or video screen grab. Top Prizesįirst Place : OSM Finder, developed by Grant Grubbs, is a tool that searches for locations in OpenStreetMap based on the distances and angles of annotated map features.
Some continued development on the tool they started in the previous hackathon while others developed completely new tools. We were also happy to see several developers who participated in our previous hackathon participate in this hackathon too. We’re excited to see several developers thinking about ways of addressing this and considering ease of deployment. This is an issue that Bellingcat identified previously, with many tools not being accessible or too technically complex for researchers to use effectively. One thing we particularly liked about this hackathon was the number of projects that sought to match tool development with researcher needs. In addition, Bellingcat is offering Tech or Tech Education Fellowships to the developers of the winning projects to further develop their tools. We hope to see them used by open-source researchers in the future. We’re excited to present the final projects from Hackathon Two here with a brief explanation as to what they can do. This differed slightly from our first hackathon, which encouraged participants to develop tools for network analysis.
Last month, Bellingcat hosted its second ever hackathon, with the event focussing on developing general tools for digital investigations.
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