Influence Mapping Group

Explore the influence of personal ties, economic interests and other relationships on politics and society.

The influence mappers community brings together power cartographers from across the world to find out what works and what doesn’t in data-driven social network analysis projects,

develop standards that can be used to share data across projects, and share technologies that help structure, visualize and analyze influence networks.

We bring together activists, journalists, coders, political scientists and others interested in data-driven methods analysing political and economic power.

The influence mapping toolbox brings together resources to help you find out how to approach, design and implement a data-driven influence mapping project.

We're working on re-usable tools, including Who's Got Dirt?, a data standard for cross-platform queries, and Oligrapher 2, a network narrative tool.

Latest blog posts

October & November Roundup: Thoughts and tools for & from the data practitioners

Stories and thoughts Tools & Projects HU.S. Election: The NY Times showed a live gauge to show the current forecast for Clinton and Trump During the election, The New York Times showed a live gauge to show the current forecast for Clinton and Trump. It moved to show a 25th to 75th percen...

Posted 03 Dec 2016, Read more

August & September Roundup: Thoughts and tools for & from the data practitioners

Stories and thoughts Tools & Projects How and why ProPublica got into the (US) elections game Last month, ProPublica announced two new projects: Electionland, a large-scale initiative to report on voting access and problems in the upcoming US elections, and Election DataBot, a comprehen...

Posted 02 Oct 2016, Read more

July Roundup: Thoughts and tools for & from the data practitioners

Stories and thoughts Continent of Secrets: Uncovering Africa’s Offshore Empires Today’s investigations include new details about the middleman at the center of a probe into hundreds of millions of dollars in suspected bribes paid for oil and gas contracts awarded in Algeria. The files also r...

Posted 01 Aug 2016, Read more

May - June Roundup: Thoughts and tools for & from the data practitioners

Stories and thoughts Fully Loaded: Inside the shadowy world of America’s 10 biggest gunmakers: Meet the moguls making a killing from gun sales in the USA “Their obscurity would seem unremarkable if we were talking about the biggest manufacturers of auto accessories or heating systems. But thes...

Posted 01 Jul 2016, Read more

Science Fair: Ojo Público compartirá cómo han abordado grandes retos tecnológicos para el periodismo de investigación

El próximo martes 5 de julio nos reuniremos con el team de Ojo Público, organización de periodismo de investigación de Perú, quienes conversarán con la comunidad de influence mapping sobre sobre uno de los proyectos que supuso un gran reto tecnológico para la organización. Se trata de Candidato...

Posted 16 Jun 2016, Read more

Science Fair: Ojo Publico and Graph Commons meet to share their experience on mapping power networks

On Tuesday, July 5th we will Hangout with the team of Ojo Público, an investigative journalism organization from Peru, who will share with the influence mapping community the process and results of one of the projects that meant a major technological challenge for the organization. Candidatos y ...

Posted 16 Jun 2016, Read more