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Leaks, journalism & graphs
How ICIJ Used Neo4j to
Unravel the Panama Papers
Mar Cabra
Editor, Data & Research Unit
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
@cabralens | @ICIJorg
icij.org

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Almost 200 journalists
Based in 65 countries
“Our aim is to bring journalists from different countries together
in teams - eliminating rivalry and promoting collaboration.
Together, we aim to be the
world’s best cross-border investigative team.”
icij.org/about

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You may remember us from...

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+370 journalists
+100 media organizations
76 countries

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Nearly one in 10 of the 31,000 tax haven companies that own
British property are linked to Mossack Fonseca

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#panamapapers

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INSIDE THE 2.6 TB

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Redis queue
35 x g2.xlarge Amazon instances with Ubuntu + Tesseract + Extract

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Lucene syntax queries with
proximity matching!
400 users

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INSIDE THE 2.6 TB

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offshoreleaks.icij.org

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MAGIC!!
● 950,000 nodes, 1.2 million edges (4GB)
Small, I know!!
● Find shortest path
Wow!
● Fuzzy searching
● Public widgets
● API

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May 9, 7pm London
Save the date…
...and download!! ;)

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HELP US OUT SOME?

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THE END
…or is it?
Mar Cabra
mcabra@icij.org | @cabralens
icij.org/support
bit.ly/icijgraphconnect2016