The ability to better visualize this info, is the value. Governments are willing to pay for Palantir because doing things tracking down pill mills is easier if

The ability to better visualize this info, is the value. Governments are willing to pay for Palantir because doing things tracking down pill mills is easier if you can perform operations like filtering for people that bought the same drug twice in a day, and then plotting those purchases on map. It's a lot harder to do this kind of analysis with Excel.