Company
Date Published
Author
Caroline Scharf & Uli Foessmeier
Word count
972
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Offshore Leaks database is a massive collection of entities and trusts incorporated in tax havens, which can facilitate money laundering, tax evasion, and other crimes. Tom Sawyer Software specializes in helping businesses build sophisticated enterprise graph and data visualization applications to analyze their Big Data, such as the volume of information in the Offshore Leaks database. The company's flagship product, Tom Sawyer Perspectives, was used to investigate connections between individuals indicted in the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal. By visualizing the network of connections and running algorithms on the data, investigators were able to identify a potential connection between a key figure and other suspected wrongdoers, highlighting the power of graph analysis and visualization in uncovering hidden relationships.