Hi Tim, I have zero time to either write much, or even explore new ideas these days, but I think an area that would be very interesting to map into a graph model is campaign finance.
Showing the relationship of donors to politicians and their committees and the fiscal relationships between politicians could provide great insights into some of the "why" things happen the way they do. You could also geocode the donors and politicians (their addresses are in the reports), and you could show employers on the graph (employers are listed in the US forms as well). If someone has the time and is looking for a good application of how to use Open Data with a graph model, that is a project I would vote for. I've been wanting to do it ever since the last election, but can't seem to find the time to sit down, download the reports, and feed them into a model or visualization tool. > Hi all, > > Sorry if this is off topic. I am the editor of the Open Data Manual[0]. > It's > an ever improving manual on how to go about open data. At the moment, it's > mostly focused on government data, but that is changing. > > A great enhancement would be some information on graphs. In particular, an > outline of moving data housed in relational tables into a graph would be > excellent. The manual has a large readership and it could be a great way > to > become a published author.* If you would like to assist, please email me > off the list. > > Tim McNamara > Professional \\ paperlessprojects.com > Personal \\ @timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks> | > timmcnamara.co.nz > > [0] http://opendatamanual.org > > * We're investigating options for creating printed material, but that > hasn't > happened yet. > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > -- Rick Otten [email protected] O=='=+ _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
