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links to archives and sources of interesting data

Adventures with J. P. Morgan and Form 13F

Posted on May 19, 2012 by admin

Inspired in part by recent work for a client, I finally got around to pulling a long night to play with some Form 13F data from the SEC. This pdf image shows significant ownership relations for J. P. Morgan at … Continue reading →

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Angels of the Right – version 2.0

Posted on November 11, 2011 by admin

I’ve been working for the past several months to build AngelsOfTheRight.net a new interactive version of the conservative philanthropy network data from the Media Matters Conservative Transparency Project and other sources. The idea is to have an atlas where you … Continue reading →

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Angels of the Right v1.0

Posted on August 31, 2010 by admin

[download full map as pdf] I’m interested in making political structures visible. Trying to put those half-realized connections and linkages into a tangible form–a map that we can point to. I recently located an online database of conservative funding relationships … Continue reading →

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The Contractor Food Web: Visualizing the flow of Recovery Act dollars to defense contractors

Posted on February 4, 2010 by admin

Found a well-structured dataset on Recovery Act contracts at fedspending.org. Created a network map for the Awards funded by Department of Defense (except military departments) category. Also serves as a crude user interface to the data. Clicking on contractor nodes … Continue reading →

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Feed & Seed

Posted on January 8, 2010 by admin

Phil Howard has built another corporate consolidation dataset, this one on ownership networks of seed distributors. [click for pdf version of network]

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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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Digging into MAPLight.org’s Bill Endorsement Data

Posted on December 9, 2008 by admin

Dan Newman, director of the money in politics watchdog/transparency site MAPLight.org kindly shared some of their bill endorsement data for me to explore. In addition to providing an elegant interface for accessing California and U.S. Federal campaign contribution data and … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Political Contributions

Posted on December 2, 2008 by admin

I’m very interested in trying to figure out ways to map the political landscapes and power structures that are operating around us. I’d like to be able to see various organizations and political actors in the context of their allies, … Continue reading →

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