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The technology behind what nuix (nuix is the name of the company) did is all open source and available to most people through various forms - I work with one such provider, and I would LOVE to dedicate some of my time for a project like this ( /u/sz_investigativ - just tell me when and if you need any help with future projects :) ).

The basic framework is Apache SOLR, which is an open source search platform built on Lucene which they fed data through parsers using Tika (and probably some more analysis by feeding image type files through an OCR engine) and finally presenting the data through Blacklight. Here's a demo that shows how their front end might look similar to: http://demo.projectblacklight.org/.

These frameworks support very advanced querying (such as f.ex. show me all documents with this account number where 2 numbers may be misspelled and where the account number shows up not more than three words away from this company name where it may also be slightly misspelled), and I am sure that the consultant they used automated parts of these querying jobs and rules to allow them to further improve analysis.

Edit: I might've been at least partly wrong, see below comments.

AMAs often attract new users who are existing fans of the product (gopro's Facebook and Twitter page both refer to this ama). Some decide to stick around once the AMA is done, so what you're witnessing is probably not nefarious.

Butt stuff

I understand it might be something you get used to, but I've a friend in the same business, and stuff like teen suicides just sucks for everyone involved is pretty much how he tells it.

Are there times when you just need to go home and hug someone? What types of cases would that be for you?

And a second question, are there times when it's the opposite? What is a great day at work for you?

While I do not agree with Mr. Cross, I do hope people in this thread avoid showing their disagreement in the form of downvotes. It's important that the answers here are clearly visible, and with a ton of downvotes that is not going to happen.