PoliticanWatch
2023
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Overview
PoliticanWatch is an investigative-data application that aggregates and cross-references leaked and public financial datasets to surface suspicious connections and opaque transactions tied to public actors. The focus is on giving researchers, journalists, and the public tools to trace flows and follow leads.
"Transparency starts with making messy, disparate datasets searchable and comparable." — Kuldeep
Key Features
- •Cross-referencing engine that links names, entities, and transactions across datasets.
- •Scalable ingestion pipeline to admit new disclosures and public records.
- •Searchable UI for surfacing patterns and visualizing relationships.
Applications
- •Support for journalists and researchers investigating corruption.
- •Public-facing dashboards that increase civic transparency.
- •Analytic tooling to align findings with broader economic impacts and SDGs.
Tech Stack
Key Achievements
- •Built a foundation to ingest and cross-check major leaked datasets (Panama/Pandora-style disclosures).
- •Designed UX focused on investigative workflows and clue discovery.
- •Showcased the project and approach on Devpost to share methods and code (moreUrl).
Impact
By turning scattered leaks into structured, comparable data, PoliticanWatch empowers accountability work. Journalists and civic technologists can use the tool to reduce the time it takes to validate leads, prioritize investigations, and explain complex financial networks to readers.