Palantir Government

Palantir participated in the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2010 Challenge in June, and we were pleased to win a Grand Challenge Award for the third year in a row. This year, the VAST Challenge scenario revolved around an international arms dealing network that inadvertently causes the spread of a viral outbreak.

In mini-challenge 1, we are given synthetic intelligence documents about the arms dealing network, from which we structure and analyze the network in Palantir.

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In mini-challenge 2, we use Horizon–now available in Palantir 3.0 as Object Explorer–to analyze 15 million patient records to determine the symptoms associated with the outbreak as well as the sequence of its spread internationally.

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Thanks to the VAST Committee for another great Challenge!

Thanks to everyone who attended our 6th Government Conference. For those of you who weren’t able to join us, we’re happy to announce that videos of the day’s presentations are now available online here.

Our next Government Conference will be in the fall of 2011. We’ll share more details on that in the coming months.

If you’d like to reference our program guide from GovCon 6, you can find it here.

Update GovCon 7 has been announced, see this page for more details.

The Naxalite-Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups, known as Naxalites or Naxals, and the Indian government.

The insurgency started as a peasant rebellion in the eastern Indian village of Naxalbari in 1967 and has currently spread to a large swath in the central and eastern parts of the country referred to as the “Red Corridor.”  In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the Naxalites “the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country.”  In 2009, he said the country was “losing the battle against Maoist rebels.”

In this video, an analyst investigates the problem of Maoist insurgency in India both at macro and micro levels using publicly available data from the web integrated into Palantir.

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In 2007, specialized cameras were installed in every Major League Baseball stadium across the United States. These cameras capture an extensive amount of data for every pitch thrown. This data set is called PITCHf/x.

Brian Bannister, after a demotion to the minor leagues, took this data and through analysis was able to adjust his pitching to reclaim his spot in the major leagues.

In this demonstration, we will use the new Object Explorer application that is part of Palantir Government 3.0 to show the type of analysis that Bannister might have done.

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