Eye on the sky: building investigative journalism tools for analyzing airplanes (WHY2025)

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. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/UCJXUK/