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A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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322 points cratermoon | 10 comments | 15 Nov 25 07:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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pickpuck ◴[17 Nov 25 21:16 UTC] No.45958412[source]▶
What if we extended this idea beyond one dataset to all discrete news events and entities: people, organizations, places.

Just like here you could get a timeline of key events, a graph of connected entities, links to original documents.

Newsrooms might already do this internally idk.

This code might work as a foundation. I love that it's RDF.

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1. axus ◴[17 Nov 25 21:38 UTC] No.45958629[source]▶
One wonders what the US government agencies use.
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2. abnercoimbre ◴[17 Nov 25 21:42 UTC] No.45958683[source]▶
I think you meant one shudders. And yeah, Snowden made it clear there's orders of magnitude more data than this graph explorer for them to sift through.
3. PaulHoule ◴[17 Nov 25 21:44 UTC] No.45958701[source]▶
Isn’t that what Palantir’s product is?
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4. cjohnson318 ◴[17 Nov 25 21:46 UTC] No.45958720[source]▶
They probably use Excel, maybe Microsoft Access.
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5. fancy_pantser ◴[17 Nov 25 21:52 UTC] No.45958779[source]▶
Software like i2 Analyst's Notebook.
6. dboreham ◴[17 Nov 25 22:34 UTC] No.45959182[source]▶
Internet search engines have their origins in government projects fwiw. They had search engines before Alta Vista, used for searching data sets that pre-date the internet, and some of the people involved in those went to work on the original commercial search engines.
7. ToucanLoucan ◴[17 Nov 25 22:36 UTC] No.45959203[source]▶
Microsoft Access form that connects via IIS to an Excel spreadsheet acting as a database. Also the server it's running on is sitting on a wooden table.
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8. arthurcolle ◴[18 Nov 25 01:52 UTC] No.45960509[source]▶
Probably not particularly useful but GCHQ & NSA both have neat graph related repos

UK: https://github.com/gchq/Gaffer

US: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/lemongraph

9. sswaner ◴[18 Nov 25 03:16 UTC] No.45961008[source]▶
Pretty much, at least at the semantic layer. https://publish.obsidian.md/followtheidea/Content/AI/Ontolog...
10. cjohnson318 ◴[19 Nov 25 04:04 UTC] No.45975729{3}[source]▶
Bro you can't just leak operational secrets on the world wide information highway like this.