Like facebook, but for terrorists: Building a knowledge graph for sanctions and risk data
A Talk by Friedrich Lindenberg (Founder, OpenSanctions)
About this Talk
OpenSanctions is an open source database of persons and companies that are subject to international sanctions, regulatory warnings, criminal watchlists and political office-holders. Pulling data from over 200 sources, we build a knowledge graph of risk that can be used as an alerting and risk analysis mechanism when combined with in-house data in organizations.
Uniquely, OpenSanctions' entire data pipeline is available to the public: from the underlying anti-corruption ontology (FollowTheMoney) to our graph aggregation and entity deduplication toolkits, we provide not just a bulk dataset, but also a broad set of open source anti-financial crime building blocks.
In this session, we want to share an outline of our production architecture, and share some of the many lessons we've learned while trying to maintain a practical, no-frills graph ETL pipeline for the last few years.
About The Speakers
Founder, OpenSanctions
Friedrich Lindenberg is the founder of OpenSanctions, an open source database of persons of interest. Before building OpenSanctions, Friedrich lead the data team at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a transnational network of non-profit investigative reporting centers.
We’re a cloud tech company that provides organisations around the world with computing infrastructure and software to help them innovate, unlock efficiencies and become more effective. We also created the world’s first – and only – autonomous database to help organise and secure our customers’ data.
