Category Archives: time-based network data

Talk at TransparencyCamp 2010

Posted on April 5, 2010 by admin

The Sunlight Foundation recently brought all of its grantees together so that each organization could learn more about what the others were working on. Since they funded the work on the CorpWatch API, I got to attend. They also invited … Continue reading →

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This is what a corporation looks like..

Posted on September 14, 2009 by admin

… from the perspective of its SEC filings Click here for a movie of the changes in corporate structure at Lehman Brothers from 2003-2008. Each dot is a subsidiary corporation and each line is a declared ownership relation.

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CorpWatch API lauch!

Posted on June 8, 2009 by admin

For the past several months, Greg and I have been working on project to scrape corporate subsidiary ownership relations from Securities Exchange Commission filings. The first part of the project launched today! So now you can pull down company names … Continue reading →

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Oilmoney Redux

Posted on March 19, 2009 by admin

The main conference on Social Network Analysis was is in San Diego this year, so I decided to make a trip down. Was nice to step away from the screen and see old and new faces from the far-flung research … Continue reading →

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Organic Brand Ownership Networks

Posted on November 1, 2007 by admin

A friend of mine recently found a map of ownership relationships in the organic food industry pinned up in a neighbor’s kitchen. A bit of searching led us to Phil Howard‘s work tracking the growth and mergers of companies and … Continue reading →

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Heavy SoNIA movie in the New York Times

Posted on August 1, 2007 by admin

..although in a minor supporting role ;-) James Fowler used the SoNIA software to create an animated movie of the core of the social network in the Framingham Heart Study as part of a paper that came out in the … Continue reading →

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API access to US state political funding data

Posted on February 16, 2007 by admin

The National Institute on Money in State Politics now provides a service where users can submit queries and download data in xml format. The documentation for the service (which requires setting up an account login) is here. They also include … Continue reading →

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