Company
Date Published
Author
Michael Hunger
Word count
1377
Language
English
Hacker News points
3

Summary

The text discusses the use of Neo4j, a graph database technology, to analyze and map the business connections of Donald J. Trump, as part of an investigative journalism project. The data was collected from a Google Spreadsheet and imported into Neo4j using Cypher queries. The resulting graph shows 1514 nodes (organizations) and 1857 relationships between them. The analysis reveals that organizations closely connected to Trump include Thrive Capital, 40 Wall Street LLC, and DJT Holdings LLC. The graph also shows the connections between people involved in Trump's cabinet nominations, including Ryan Zinke, Jeff Sessions, Wilbur Ross, Andy Puzder, Scott Pruitt, and Roma Downey. Additionally, the analysis explores transitive relationships within the data, finding shortest paths between individuals and organizations. The authors plan to extend the graph with related data from other sources, such as littlesis.org and OpenCorporates.