Analyzer

There are multiple software packages entitled "Analyzer" discussed on the World Wide Web. Here, we are referring to a product developed by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG).

Human rights groups collect data containing details of human rights abuses from various sources, including medical records, newspaper articles, witness testimonies, letters, interviews, and official reports and documents. Analyzer is used to collect, maintain and analyse that data. The Analyzer database relies on a coding system for the data; that coding system is based on the "Who did what to whom" model.

Analysis of the overlap between sources of data, i.e., individual data-collection projects, allows for the use of multiple systems estimation to estimate a count of abuses within a particular geographic area or political context.

Analyzer is a free, open-source project developed by HRDAG in partnership with the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA CEELI), The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Open Society Institute.

Further information on Analyzer can be obtained as follows:

1. Downloads of Analyzer can be found at Sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hrdag-analyzer/.

2. The Human Rights Data Analysis Group provides support for using Analyzer and can be contacted at info at hrdag dot org.