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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Updated Dollars for Docs
This release includes updated data, payments to teaching hospitals, and information about brand-name prescribing rates for some doctors.
A More Secure and Anonymous ProPublica Using Tor Hidden Services
We’ve launched a “Tor hidden service” that lets you to browse our site more securely and anonymously. Read this post to find out how to use it, and how to make your own.
How to Vet Nonprofits Before You Give
Using ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and a charity’s own documents, you can make a more informed giving decision.
Nonprofit Explorer
We’ve updated our Nonprofit Explorer app with over 600,000 new tax filings from FY2013. Use the database to search over 1.8 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations.
New Dollars for Docs
Pharmaceutical and medical device companies paid billions to doctors from late 2013 through 2014, new data shows. Search for your doctor in our interactive database.
Money as a Weapons System
How U.S. commanders spent $2 billion of petty cash in Afghanistan
Why Pharma Payments to Doctors Were So Hard to Parse
Flaws in information submitted to Open Payments, a government database of financial relationships in the medical field, complicated our analysis.
