The New Stack Podcast

How the Neo4J Graph Database Helped Decipher the Panama Papers

Episode Summary

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke with Phillip Rathle, VP of Products at Neo Technology. Neo4J was the database technology responsible for helping journalists and law enforcement decipher the now-infamous Panama papers (also known as the Mossack Fonseca papers), with an impact the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism found spans across 11.5 million files, detailing the illicit activities of 320,000 offshore companies. Through making use of graph database technologies and open source software, Neo Technology built its Neo4J graph technology into what it is today. For this podcast, we set out to explore how graph databases differ from one another, learn more about Neo4J’s role in the leak of the Mossack Fonseca papers, and to discover what’s next on the calendar for Neo Technology heading into 2017. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/neo4j-biggest-break-in-data-journalism/

Episode Notes

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke with Phillip Rathle, VP of Products at Neo Technology. Neo4J was the database technology responsible for helping journalists and law enforcement decipher the now-infamous Panama papers (also known as the Mossack Fonseca papers), with an impact the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism found spans across 11.5 million files, detailing the illicit activities of 320,000 offshore companies.

Through making use of graph database technologies and open source software, Neo Technology built its Neo4J graph technology into what it is today. For this podcast, we set out to explore how graph databases differ from one another, learn more about Neo4J’s role in the leak of the Mossack Fonseca papers, and to discover what’s next on the calendar for Neo Technology heading into 2017.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/neo4j-biggest-break-in-data-journalism/