The Paradise Papers: Investigating and Analyzing Corruption with Graphs

This event is co-hosted by Colorado-Data-Science (https://www.meetup.com/Colorado-Data-Science/), Graph-Nerds-of-Boulder (https://www.meetup.com/Graph-Nerds-of-Boulder), and Galvenize

The Paradise Papers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers) represent one of the world's largest data leaks in history: 13.4 million records exposing a system that enables crime, corruption, and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies. Over 400 journalist members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) are investigating the data stored in a Neo4j graph database.

In this talk, Will Lyon will demonstrate how Neo4j graph database powered this investigation, showing queries and visualizations highlighting the relationships between offshore companies, corporate officers, law firms and addresses. He'll use the ICIJ app to show you how you too can dive into the data which has been opened up by the ICIJ for the world to investigate. You'll learn to write basic Cypher queries for finding nodes, relationships, and paths.

Attendees are welcome to bring their computers to follow along. You can download the ICIJ app by following instructions here (https://neo4j.com/blog/icij-releases-neo4j-desktop-download-paradise-papers/)

Speaker BIO

William Lyon (https://twitter.com/lyonwj) is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j (http://neo4j.com/company/). He also heads up theNeo4j Data Journalism Accelerator Program (https://neo4j.com/graph-database-data-journalism-accelerator-program/?ref=bio). Prior to joining Neo4j, William worked as software developer for several startups in the real estate, quantitative finance and predictive API spaces. William holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Montana.

Food and beverages provided by: Neo4j (http://neo4j.com/)