The media start-up International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been breaking the secrecy surrounding tax havens for the past four years, but graph databases helped take their investigative power to the next level. Learn how their reporters used graphs to unveil patterns of crime and corruption in exposés like the Panama Papers and how millions of people have now become investigators by using the Neo4j-powered Offshore Leaks Database, one of the largest repositories of offshore companies in the world.

10. The --start-up-- ICIJ
ICIJ leadership
US-based team
Data & Research Unit
Africa desk

11. +370 journalists in 80 countries

15. It’s not even the tip of the iceberg
Photo: Ben O’Bryan

18. RESIGNED

22. We got lucky!
Thanks to tech
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24. The “Watergate-type reporter”
Investigated the President
(Paraguay)
The developer
Knows all about data
(France)
Skills
Needs

25. Investigative social networking

26. Investigative e-discovery

31. MAGIC!!
● I click on “dots” and I find stories!
● I discover stories thanks to fuzzy searching
● Find shortest path
Wow!
Cypher queries
Public widgets
API

34. 1M nodes, 4.5M relationships

35. CRAZY!!
Since May 9, 2016:
● 7.4 million sessions
● 44.2 million page views
● Visitors coming from (top 5 countries): US, Japan, Spain, Canada,
UK
● Many entering through the country filter
● Among the most searched terms...

38. Download
in Neo4j :)

39. Discover yourself!

40. call apoc.meta.graph

41. Photo: Elaine
We barely scratched the surface

42. TO DO
Entity extraction
Email pattern analysis
Content mining
Data mining
Machine learning
Matches with other document collections

44. donate.icij.org

46. Photo: jessica
Let’s stop playing bingo!