Linkurious

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Linkurious
TypeSocial network analysis and graph data visualization
Industrysoftware
Founded1 January 2013; 8 years ago (2013-01-01) in Paris, France
FounderSébastien Heymann, David Rapin, Jean Villedieu
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
Websitelinkurio.us

Linkurious is a French software company that provides social network analysis primarily through graph visualization.

History[]

Linkurious was founded in 2013 by Sébastien Heymann, David Rapin and Jean Villedieu following the development of Gephi, which was inspired by the prototype for Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis project Mapping the Republic of Letters and looked at connections across thousands of communities in Europe and North America during The Enlightenment.[1]

Products[]

Linkurious Enterprise provides search and visualization capabilities for various graph databases such as Neo4j, TitanDB, DataStax, AllegroGraph and .[2][3][4]

Linkurious' graph visualization tool is used for NASA's Lessons Learned database, identifying connections between seemingly unlikely subjects, such as a correlation between contaminated fluid and battery fire risk.[5][6]

Applications[]

Panama Papers[]

The ICIJ used a commercial version of Linkurious and Neo4j in the investigation of the Panama papers, uncovering 4.8 million leaked files consisting of emails, 3 million database entries, 2.2 million PDFs, 1.2 million images, 320,000 text files, and 2242 files, evidence of money laundering, tax evasion or political corruption.[7][8]

Swiss Leaks[]

The ICIJ also utilized the software during the Swiss Leaks investigation that revealed a massive tax evasion scheme in which 180.6 billion euros passed through HSBC accounts.[9][10]

Pandora Papers[]

In 2021, the ICIJ leveraged the capabilities of Linkurious and Neo4j once more to analyse the data from the Pandora Papers.[11] The leak involved 14 different offshore services firms and 11.9 million records, amouting to 2.94 terabytes. The network visualisations[12] were able to help organise and explain the data.

References[]

  1. ^ News, Stanford. "Visualization tool prototyped by Stanford humanities scholars aids the investigation of 'Panama Papers' | The Dish". news.stanford.edu. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Startup Delivers Visual Search Tool for Neo4j Graphs". Datanami. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  3. ^ Miller, Ron. "DataStax adds graph databases to enterprise Cassandra product set". TechCrunch. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  4. ^ Villedieu, Jean. "Visualize your RedisGraph data with OGMA". Linkurious' Blog. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  5. ^ Melendez, Steven. "NASA Is Harnessing Graph Databases To Organize Lessons Learned From Past Projects". FastCompany. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Llis". llis.nasa.gov. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  7. ^ "How France's Linkurious helped reporters use data visualization to make sense of the Panama Papers". 7 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Wrangling 2.6TB of data: The people and the technology behind the Panama Papers". Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  9. ^ "Linkurious, la pépite révélée grâce aux " Panama Papers "". 5 April 2016.
  10. ^ "SwissLeaks : on n'a soulevé qu'un coin du tapis". 10 February 2015.
  11. ^ Peake, Kathryn. "A "Tsunami of Data": the Investigative Technology Behind the Pandora Papers". Linkurio.us. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  12. ^ "The Power Players". The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Retrieved 3 November 2021.

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