POLE Investigations (Persons, Objects, Locations, and Events) for Governments - Tom Geudens, Senior Presales Consultant, Neo4j

1. POLE Investigations
Tom Geudens
Field Team Member

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Agenda
● POLE model
● POLE Use Cases
● POLE with Neo4j
● Demo
● Takeaways
● Q&A

3. POLE Model
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4. POLE Model
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5. Panama/Paradise Papers Model - Basic
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6. Panama/Paradise Papers Model - Now
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7. Panama/Paradise Papers Model - Next
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8. POLE Model - Crime
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9. POLE Model - Crime - Concepts
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● Person - Victim, Police Officer, Witness, Suspect, …
● Object - Weapon, Paperweight, Knife, Email, Phone, …
● Location - Home address, Place of employment, Landmark,
Public place, Police station, Crime scene, …
● Event - Crime, Arson, Meeting, Arrest, Transfer, Phonecall, ...

10. POLE Model - Crime - Relationshiptypes
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● Person - Person : PARENT_OF, …
● Person - Object : OWNS, USED, REGISTERED, FIRED, WROTE, …
● Object - Object : FIRED_FROM, …
● Person - Location : LIVES_AT, WORKS_AT, OWNS, USED_FOR,
VISITED, …
● Person - Event : TARGET_OF, INITIATED, HEARD, SAW,
TOOK_PART_IN, ORGANISED, …
● Object - Location : FOUND_AT, BOUGHT_AT, REGISTERED_AT,
…
● ...
And I wasn't even trying yet!!!

11. POLE Use Cases
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● Border control
● Counter terrorism
● Crime solving
● Immigration
● …
● Contact Tracing

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Anyone for … Tennis Privacy?

13. POLE with Neo4j
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First - Express things the way they are:
● Add new concepts as they come up
● Don't generalize … for example what does linked to a crime
mean? That may serve as a stand-in, as soon as you know
better, express it that way!
Second - Leverage the relationships, the connections. That is where
the power of both the POLE mode and a graph database lies!
Lets bring the original (!) meaning of good enough for
government work back, shall we?

14. POLE with Neo4j - as a Meme
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15. Demo - This is where it happened
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16. Demo - Location, location, location ...
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● That is Cam Peak, Cotswolds, Dursley GL11 5HH, UK, latitude
51.690680, longitude -2.337421, MGRS 30U WC 45799 26843
● That is a public place
● That is a landmark
● An event took place there on May 29th, 2020 ...

17. Demo - The data
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● The location is real
● The event and the story are real
● What I'm going to show is not real in the sense that it's not
literally being done like that … yet
● Names and addresses have been anomyzed

18. Demo(n)
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19. Takeaways
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● A lot of governments have jumped on the exchange data bike,
on the making data publicly available bus, …
That is - without sarcasm - great
● Too few governments are on the high speed getting insights
from the data train, on the complex querying plane, on the
reacting in real time rocketship.
● The Neo4j database can help you do that!

20. Thank You
and now ...
Q&A
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