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Who will bring AI to those who cannot pay?

One Sunday night in 2009, a man was stabbed to death in the Brentwood area of Long Island. Due to a recent policy change there was no detective on duty that night, and his body lay uncovered on the...

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View the same documents in different ways with multiple trees

Starting today Overview supports multiple trees for each document set. That is, you can tell Overview to re-import your documents — or a subset of them — with different options, without uploading them...

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VIDEO: What the Overview Project does

Here is my talk from the wonderful Groundbreaking Journalism conference in Berlin last week, plus the panel afterwards. This is a great short introduction to what the Overview Project has done, and...

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Overview’s response to the Heartbleed security vulnerability

You may have heard that, a few days ago, a serious bug called Heartbleed was discovered in a piece of the software that powers much of the web, including Overview. This bug could allow an attacker to...

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The document mining Pulitzers

Four of the winners and finalists of the 2014 Pulitzer prize in journalism were based on reporting from a large volume of documents. Journalists have relied on bulk documents since long before...

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Importing documents from a CSV file

There are different ways to get your documents into Overview. This post is about loading documents into Overview using the file CSV file format, and the format that Overview expects. The quick answer...

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Stupid Tag Tricks

Overview’s tags are very powerful, but it may not obvious how to use them best. Here’s a collection of tagging tricks that have been helpful to our users, from Overview developer Jonas Karlsson....

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Overview can now read most file formats directly

Previously, Overview could only read PDF files. (You can also import all documents in a single CSV file, or import a project from DocumentCloud.) Starting today, you can directly upload documents in a...

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Powerful new plugins: Wordcloud and Multisearch

Starting today Overview has two new plugins pre-installed on overviewproject.org. You can access both through the Add View menu. WordCloud is just that. You can click on a word to select all documents...

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Overview’s Search Syntax

Overview supports phrase searches, fuzzy searches, and booleans. Here’s what you can search for in the search box and the Multi-Search plugin: John Smith: All documents containing the phrase “John...

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