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One wonders what the US government agencies use.


Isn’t that what Palantir’s product is?


Pretty much, at least at the semantic layer. https://publish.obsidian.md/followtheidea/Content/AI/Ontolog...


They probably use Excel, maybe Microsoft Access.


Microsoft Access form that connects via IIS to an Excel spreadsheet acting as a database. Also the server it's running on is sitting on a wooden table.


Bro you can't just leak operational secrets on the world wide information highway like this.


Probably not particularly useful but GCHQ & NSA both have neat graph related repos

UK: https://github.com/gchq/Gaffer

US: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/lemongraph


Internet search engines have their origins in government projects fwiw. They had search engines before Alta Vista, used for searching data sets that pre-date the internet, and some of the people involved in those went to work on the original commercial search engines.


I think you meant one shudders. And yeah, Snowden made it clear there's orders of magnitude more data than this graph explorer for them to sift through.


Software like i2 Analyst's Notebook.




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