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A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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322 points cratermoon | 1 comments | 15 Nov 25 07:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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. ggm ◴[18 Nov 25 00:43 UTC] No.45960134[source]▶
Given 6 degrees is rooted in reality, this means we can draw causal graphs from anyone (bad) to anyone (we don't like) and then invent specious reasons why it means "it's all connected, man"

That said, some networks of shorter paths than 6 are interesting. Right now, there's a 1:1 direct path from these documents to a bunch of people with an interest in confounding what evidentiary value they have in justice processes. That's more interesting to me, than what the documents say right now.