[okfn-labs] Fwd: Launch of Detective.io - Overview of new developments in SNA

[Damian Kahya]

Hello all,

Just a short note to let you know we've been doing some work using data on
the health impacts of coal in china. The data and a interactive map (only
Cartodb) is on our page... but the link at the bottom has the full
spreadsheet which you are all, of course, free to use.

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/data/interactive-health-impact-chinas-coal-plants-mapped

Damian

Damian Kahya
Editor, Greenpeace Energydesk
07974563869


On 29 November 2013 13:12, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> Congrats to Nicolas and J++ for launch of Detective.io!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> [...]
>
> I take the liberty to revive it to shamelessly announce our new product,
> Detective.io :) We were working last May on an investigation to map all
> innovative energy projects in developing countries and couldn't find a
> proper way to store the data. We tried Poderopedia Plug 'n Play but needed
> more flexibility in the ontology (we had energy projects and products, for
> instance, that didn't fit in the default one).
>
> We therefore went ahead and designed our own product using Django and
> Neo4j. The key feature is that any OWL ontology can be fed to the platform.
> It then creates a new "investigation", i.e. a contribution interface to
> input data as well as a dedicated front-end. We don't have network
> visualizations yet but make use of the Neo4j magic with a graph search
> feature.
>
> In terms of philosophy, we made the radical decision to keep nodes
> distinct from one investigation to the next. We realized that entities do
> not have the same meaning in different contexts. In our first
> investigation, the node "British Government" (type: Organization)
> symbolizes all British public involvement in energy projects. If we were to
> investigate relationships at 10 Downing Street, such a node would not be
> helpful. Instead, we would have nodes for each department of the executive
> branch.
>
> Feedback from experts like you would be immensely appreciated.
>
> In other news, we witnessed the recent launch of a tool by investigative
> journalists of the NGO OCCRP <http://vis.occrp.org/> that is very
> intuitive to map connections when investigating criminals. It has no option
> to add new types and no search feature. It will be open sourced soon.
>
> Developed in Istanbul, GraphCommons <http://graphcommons.com/> is also
> pretty intuitive, especially to share a map of nodes with collaborators.
> However, it has no data mining feature and a very limited set of types.
>
> Best wishes from Berlin,
>
> Nicolas.
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>
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