Who do they Serve

	Who do They Serve shows relationships within powerful elite systems
Home page	http://www.whodotheyserve.com/
Approach	Who do They Serve mapped relationships between individuals, corporations and worldwide networks by scraping Wikipedia articles and shed light on their ties and uncover possible conflicts of interests.
Phase	Released
Tags	power relationships, economic interests, institutional powers, network viz, and who's who

Most Recent Update	2015
Update Frequency	true
Thematic Focus	Exposure
Issue addressed	Shadow influence
Geographic Focus	World

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

Lists	true
Network Visualisation	true
Raw Data	true

Description

Summary of the project and its approach

	WhoDoTheyServe.com is a non-profit opensource effort to map the global political, financial and corporate power structure at the highest levels. A secondary purpose is to highlight possible conflict of interest.
Approach (How?)	Who do They Serve mapped relationships between individuals, corporations and worldwide networks by scraping Wikipedia articles and shed light on their ties and uncover possible conflicts of interests.
Language	English
Commissioner	Self-commissionned

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : Twitter : ( followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: 1 Alexa: 2190973 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 13/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 18/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Offline Audience Reached : Outcome : Last updated : 10/12/2015 Attempts against the project : /

Technology

What tools and code were used to create the project?

Tech Best Practices: : : : Code Repository : https://github.com/dizzib/WhoDoTheyServe.com : Tool : : : : Database : : Frontend : : : : : Backend : : : : : Data Format : : Data Standard : Technical Documentation URL : : Technical Architecture Documentation : Schema Documentation : Design Documentation : API Documentation :

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Team

Team size and expertise

Team Size : Team Experience : Research : Some Data Science : None Engineering : Some Design : Some

Project Methodology

What strategies were in place for managing the project?

Project Methodology : Open Source : true Open Data : false Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : No planning Sustainability Planning : Updated

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : Relational Ethical Collection : No guidelines Ethical Storage : Data Collection : External Sources Data Collection : Data Verification : false Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : false Data Licensing : Public Ethical Publishing : Not documented Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : API