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Analyzing Australia’s Public Sphere Initiative

Governments worldwide are starting to leverage web technologies to improve communication between government and the public. This video demonstrates how Palantir can be used to analyze public forum data such as blog feeds and tweets. In this case, Palantir follows ACT (Australian Capital Territory) Senator Kate Lundy’s Public Sphere initiative in an effort to understand [...]

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The Palantir Technologies Demo Reel: screenshots, round 3

Software engineering is a craft that blends science and art. This fact is easy to overlook as the artistic aspects are often eclipsed by discussions of the science and technology behind what we do. This is not one of those times: the art in software engineering is most evident when building compelling visual interfaces, something [...]

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Using the VIX as a Market Signal

The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, is often cited as a market-timing indicator.  Traders have created a variety of strategies to exploit supposed correlations between this “fear index” and future market returns.  Using Palantir Finance, we can effortlessly examine the exact nature of these correlations to make more informed trading decisions.  The [...]

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Protected: Mobile Phone

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Investigating an E. Coli Outbreak

This video shows how public health analysts could use Palantir to perform traceback analysis on an outbreak of an illness or infection. With the 2009-2010 flu season just beginning, it’s good time to take a look at how Palantir can be used by government health agencies in the fight to protect public health. The data [...]

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How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade – Video

This video segment accompanied the September 4th, 2009 Wall Street Journal story, How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade, by Siobhan Gorman. Read the associated article online here.

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Protected: CDC

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Substitutes for Oil

Normally, if you wanted to go long oil, you might buy an energy sector ETF or buy oil stocks.    But it’s possible that those stocks may not be available or that they are not available at a high volume.   Or maybe you just want to find a less commonly used and less crowded ways to [...]

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