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Mike Tigas

Mike Tigas was the Lead Product Developer, DevOps and Security at ProPublica. He is also the developer of Tabula, a data extraction tool for PDF files, and Onion Browser, an open source web browser for iOS which uses the Tor anonymity network.

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Mike Tigas was the Lead Product Developer, DevOps and Security at ProPublica. He also works on tools for online privacy and the liberation of public data. He is a lead developer on Tabula (a data extraction tool for PDF files) and Onion Browser (an anonymizing web browser for iOS). He was a 2013 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow and previously worked as a newsroom web developer at The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington).

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Dollars for Doctors

Updated: Dollars for Docs

How much are your doctors being paid by drug or device companies? Look them up in our newly updated database.

by Mike Tigas, Ryann Grochowski Jones, Charles Ornstein and Lena V. Groeger,

Nonprofit Explorer: Research Tax-Exempt Organizations

Search the full text of over 9.6 million tax filing documents going back as far as 2001.

by Andrea Suozzo, Alec Glassford, Ash Ngu, Jeff Frankl, Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei and Ken Schwencke,

Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn’t Exist

A ProPublica analysis found that the state was busily fixing problems in its voter registration hours after the office of Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, had insisted the system was secure.

by Jack Gillum, Jessica Huseman, Mike Tigas and Jeff Kao, ProPublica; and Stephen Fowler, Georgia Public Broadcasting,

Dollars for Doctors

We’ve Added 2016 Data to Dollars for Docs

Is your doctor taking money from drug or device companies? Check with our newly updated app.

by Charles Ornstein, Mike Tigas, Ryann Grochowski Jones, and Lena V. Groeger,

Updated: Nonprofit Explorer

We have added raw data from more than 1.9 million electronically filed Form 990 documents dating back to 2010.

by Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei, and Alec Glassford,

College Debt

Nothin’ but Debt: Which NCAA Tournament Schools Give Low-Income Students the Best Shot?

Instead of basketball skill, our bracket is based on five factors that measure each school’s ability to graduate low-income students with little debt.

by Mike Tigas and Olga Pierce,

Nonprofit Explorer Update

We’ve updated our database of nonprofit tax filings. It now includes more than 9 million Form 990s.

by Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei,

Dollars for Doctors

We’ve Updated Dollars for Docs. Here’s What’s New.

ProPublica has been publishing data on conflicts of interest in medicine since 2010. We’ve updated our Dollars for Docs database with billions of dollars in payments made last year.

by Ryann Grochowski Jones, Charles Ornstein and Mike Tigas,

Dollars for Doctors

Updated Dollars for Docs

We’ve updated Dollars for Docs. It now includes payments made from August 2013 through December 2015 — some $6.25 billion in payments to more than 800,000 doctors.

by Charles Ornstein, Lena V. Groeger, Mike Tigas and Ryann Grochowski Jones,

Dollars for Doctors

Now There’s Proof: Docs Who Get Company Cash Tend to Prescribe More Brand-Name Meds

The more money doctors receive from drug and medical device companies, the more brand-name drugs they tend to prescribe, a new ProPublica analysis shows. Even a meal can make a difference.

by Charles Ornstein, Mike Tigas and Ryann Grochowski Jones,