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I actually really get the general reaction here to Palantir. What I don't get is why the FOSS community hasn't just done the right thing and produce a competito

by bane 7y ago

I actually really get the general reaction here to Palantir. What I don't get is why the FOSS community hasn't just done the right thing and produce a competitor yet. It's not like link analysis [1] with shared backends isn't an interesting problem and big business producing billions in revenue for various companies every year. - Palantir $6B valuation - IBM Analyst Notebook - https://www.ibm.com/security/resources/demos/i2-analysts-notebook-demo/ https://www.ibm.com/security/resources/demos/i2-analysts-not... - Maltego - made by a company called Paterva with something like 200 employees popular in cyber circles Where can somebody go and just apt-get gnu-links? 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_analysis

medecau 7y ago
> Where can somebody go and just apt-get gnu-links? https://gephi.org/users/install/ https://gephi.org/users/install/ But it was last updated in 2017 - https://github.com/gephi/gephi/wiki/Releases https://github.com/gephi/gephi/wiki/Releases
- bane 7y ago
  Gephi (and other graph tools) aren't quite the same thing. The front-end user interface, and the workflows are different. It's a little closer to how maybe yED works with dragging and dropping of entities, connections, groups, but also a robust meta-data system attached to all of those things + some tools that make bringing in new information from free-text (or wherever) simple. Then all that stuff should be stored in some kind of centralized semantic database that any user using that system can search and find stuff somebody else already put in there. Maybe a document search as well so you can see what raw documents have been ETL'd. Then take various attributes off of some of the entities and relationships (like dates, or geos, or IPs) and builds various ways of looking at, filtering, and search that stuff quickly.

by bane 7y ago

medecau 7y ago

> Where can somebody go and just apt-get gnu-links? https://gephi.org/users/install/ https://gephi.org/users/install/ But it was last updated in 2017 - https://github.com/gephi/gephi/wiki/Releases https://github.com/gephi/gephi/wiki/Releases

bane 7y ago
Gephi (and other graph tools) aren't quite the same thing. The front-end user interface, and the workflows are different. It's a little closer to how maybe yED works with dragging and dropping of entities, connections, groups, but also a robust meta-data system attached to all of those things + some tools that make bringing in new information from free-text (or wherever) simple. Then all that stuff should be stored in some kind of centralized semantic database that any user using that system can search and find stuff somebody else already put in there. Maybe a document search as well so you can see what raw documents have been ETL'd. Then take various attributes off of some of the entities and relationships (like dates, or geos, or IPs) and builds various ways of looking at, filtering, and search that stuff quickly.