Analyzing The Trumpworld Graph: Applying Network Analysis to Public Data

Agenda:

6:30pm - Networking and Food

7:00pm - 7:30pm - The Neo4j Trumpworld Graph - William Lyon (https://twitter.com/lyonwj), Neo4j

7:30pm-8:00pm - Mapping and Analyzing Civic Data - Burak Arikan (https://twitter.com/arikan), Graph Commons

The Neo4j Trumpworld Graph - William Lyon (http://lyonwj.com), Neo4j

A few weeks ago BuzzFeed released a public dataset (https://www.buzzfeed.com/johntemplon/help-us-map-trumpworld)of people and organizations connected to Donald Trump and members of his administration. As they say in their blog post (https://www.buzzfeed.com/johntemplon/help-us-map-trumpworld)announcing the data:

No American president has taken office with a giant network of businesses, investments, and corporate connections like that amassed by Donald J. Trump. His family and advisers have touched a staggering number of ventures, from a hotel in Azerbaijan to a poker company in Las Vegas.

In this meetup we will show how to import this data into Neo4j, write Cypher queries to find interesting connections and visualize the results using Neo4j Browser.

In addition, we will show how to add public data from USASpending.gov on government contracts and campaign finance from the FEC, allowing us to answer questions like:

How are members of the Trump administration connected to vendors of government contracts?

Who are the most influential people in the network and how are they connected to Trump?

Bring a laptop if you'd like to follow along or just watch as we cover importing the data and writing queries to apply network analysis concepts.

Mapping and Analyzing Civic Data - Burak Arikan (https://twitter.com/arikan), Graph Commons

Mapping and analyzing data networks provide immense opportunities to civil society. In this talk, I will present the Graph Commons platform (http://graphcommons.com) (graphcommons.com) and how individuals and small organizations use it to transform their data into interactive maps and untangle complex relations that impact them and their communities. Examples will include The Trump Network, Syrian refugees support network, policy analysis of Europe's climate change regulations, and a mapping of attempts to craft an Internet Bill of Rights.