The Investigative Consortium of Journalists used Neo4j to untangle the Panama Papers leak.
Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
#12You can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis_softwa...
In addition to those on the wikipedia link from Jonnybgood, see also
lumify (lumify.io) developed by Altamira
Visual Understanding Environment (http://vue.tufts.edu/) from Tufts
Lumify is for networked data analysis and data annotation
VUE is more for presentation but has very basic network, and semantic analysis tools and ontology mapping capabilities.
and last but not least - TimeFlow is old but useful for mapping temporal sequences quickly and easily. See https://drawingbynumbers.org/tools/timeflow.html
Re: Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
#13In the UK we have https://fullfact.org , an independent fact checking charity. It isn't quite the same thing, e.g. is more of a service than software, but is open source friendly, e.g. was the topic of a recent Lucene hackathon.
Re: Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
#14I've been working on a project called Aleph ( https://github.com/pudo/aleph , live: http://data.occrp.org/ ), which is targeted at investigative reporters. It's supposed to handle a related set of problems, which is data integration of diverse public records and journalistic lead generation (i.e. what to investigate next). The road map for the coming two years includes some visual analytics similar to what I guess mo…
This looks really very interesting! Thank you for the link, I think I might have a few use cases for this if it's easy to work with.
Re: Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
#15In the UK we have https://fullfact.org , an independent fact checking charity. It isn't quite the same thing, e.g. is more of a service than software, but is open source friendly, e.g. was the topic of a recent Lucene hackathon.
Brilliant landing page at present, I must say!
Re: Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
#16I think you're asking the wrong question. There is nothing special about Palantir software that you can't find in the open source world already. What Palantir does is just throw a bunch of bodies at the problem to "integrate" things.
If you truly want to provide an open source alternative then curating some jupyter notebooks with the right libraries and integration is all it takes. A properly curated set of R libraries with a nice interface would also do the trick.
Re: Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
#17I worked at palantir. As a designer. Grains of salt.
The value is in the dataset. Most of what's on top is handmade by fresh grads.
Spend your effort getting access to the firehose, and the rest will follow.
Re: Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
#18Are you certain that you want a competitor to palantir? It sounds like you might want I2 Analyst Notebook from IBM, or something like maltego from Paterva. Maltego is also free (ish) which is cool.
Re: Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
#19I've been working on a project called Aleph ( https://github.com/pudo/aleph , live: http://data.occrp.org/ ), which is targeted at investigative reporters. It's supposed to handle a related set of problems, which is data integration of diverse public records and journalistic lead generation (i.e. what to investigate next). The road map for the coming two years includes some visual analytics similar to what I guess mo…
Borges?
Re: Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
#20I've been working on a project called Aleph ( https://github.com/pudo/aleph , live: http://data.occrp.org/ ), which is targeted at investigative reporters. It's supposed to handle a related set of problems, which is data integration of diverse public records and journalistic lead generation (i.e. what to investigate next). The road map for the coming two years includes some visual analytics similar to what I guess mo…
Borges?
I feel Borges' Aleph is the more charming and less creepy version of Tolkien's Palantir :) Strive for knowledge, not control.