Fun fact: I've heard from a friend working in trains that the Norwegians are envious of how efficient we Swedes are in regards to trains. To them, we have struck the perfect balance of maintaining an OK railway in relation to the very few krona we spend.
Not exactly what you're asking for. But http://www.jplusplus.org/en/ have mailing lists and is a community of journalists looking through data. I'm sure they have alternatives or suggestions.
I'm thinking about software that does link analysis - this person works with that person, got paid by other person, etc. Basically, computer support for intelligence analysts, but in the public service.
Swedish heavily ad-funded tabloid Aftonbladet is also experimenting with immersive stories.
http://story.aftonbladet.se/spice/2 (This about the drug trade with "Spice".)
I think the news industry is basically trying everything to see how to capture the increasingly mobile user base. Hopefully this is a step away from advertisors' impression frenzy.
Good catch. GA added this after we came up with our solution. We are using custom Javascript code that uses Measurment Protocol to send data to GA.
EDIT: Client Id still needs to be generated for Google's Analytics.js. In my experience, the approach we took for that works quite well without using complicated browser foot-printing.