2025-08-09 –, Andromeda
Language: English
What aircraft have been in Moscow and New York within 24 hours of each other? How many helicopters normally patrol this border? At Bellingcat, a Dutch investigative non-profit, we publish open-source journalism using open-source software tools. In this presentation, I'll talk about a new tool I've been building for querying airplane data, and the broader journalistic context of this data, which has become increasingly important for tracking oligarchs, deportations and conflict.
I'm Logan, a technologist, journalist, birdwatcher and data artist from Oregon via Amsterdam. I like to look closely at nature, and in my art practice I explore the ways that technology mediates and augments human observation. I am also the Technology Officer for Bellingcat, a non-profit journalism NGO that develops open source methods for investigative journalism. There, I build tools for journalists to investigate and document war crimes, endangered species trafficking, and online extremism. Also ask me about: ecological data sources, computational photography, sonification, bird migration, D3.js, mothing, and what happens when you leave a Raspberry Pi in a creek for a year.