Oligrapher is a tool for visualizing networks of influence and power. Here is how you can get started using it.
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Measuring “contagion” effect of political donations using LittleSis data
While the LittleSis website is a useful tool for researchers, academics, journalists, and activists to explore and map networks of powerful people and organizations, our data is available for anyone to use for free under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This means that anyone can use the data in our database for whatever they …
All about that data
Well-tended profiles on LittleSis can be chock full of interesting and useful information, but where do you begin? A few months ago we rolled out a new tab designed to help you isolate only the information you want to see. Now it’s time for a formal introduction. Every profile page for people and organizations now …
Oligrapher updates: home page, interlocks, and more
We have some exciting updates to share about Oligrapher, the LittleSis power mapping tool. First, it has a brand new home page. Check out all of the amazing visualizations created with Oligrapher since we introduced the tool last year, create a map or sign up for an account, and share the page far and wide! …
Introducing Oligrapher: power mapping on LittleSis
The Endless Chain A single example will illustrate the vicious circle of control–the endless chain–through which our financial oligarchy now operates: J.P. Morgan (or a partner), a director of the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, causes that company to sell to J.P. Morgan & Co. an issue of bonds. J.P. Morgan & Co. …
Join a LittleSis training!
Look familiar? You can now join a free online training to get over the hump and start using LittleSis for your power research! The real value of LittleSis is that anyone can edit and add data to keep the information accurate, current, and most importantly, growing. The more that our community of researchers, journalists, academics, …
Elderly fear drop in Medicare coverage in new health plan
The elderly rethink their support of Obama over health care reform. (NYT) Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will speak today at the Fed annual retreat about the past year and how he sees the future. (AP) As Citigroup and AIG submit their executive pay scales to Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg, Obama won’t micromanage this one. (Bloomberg) …
How to Profile Investors on LittleSis
In response to a couple of questions I’ve received from analysts lately, I wanted to provide a simple set of instructions for profiling investors on LittleSis. Why Profile Investors? When prominent investors such as John Paulson make investment decisions, it can have a large impact on the public perception of a given industry. For example: …
LittleSis is growing!
And not just the database. Over the past two weeks, the LittleSis team has added three new members: Ellen Przepasniak, a (recovering?) print journalist, will be coordinating communications efforts and making regular appearances here at Eyes on the Ties; Erin Heaney, a community organizer, will be coordinating special projects, on-site and off; and Kyle Stone, …
Why LittleSis Matters
There are thousands of people in the US, and plenty more around the world, who spend every day investigating the ties between people in the upper circles of government and business. These people have diverse backgrounds: investigative journalists, social scientists, political opposition researchers, social justice activists, public interest attorneys, and business intelligence types. There are …
Welcoming the Posse
A big welcome to friends of the Sunlight Foundation! Today’s Sunlight post marks LittleSis’s first real steps out into the wide world of the internet. We’re very happy that transparency’s posse is getting a first peek at the site, because we designed it for people like you: people focused on breaking through the information barriers …