Palantir Government

Awhile back we shared some screenshots of the Elvish Palantir Workspace. We’d like to give an update on our progress with real-world languages. Our internationalization work has enabled us to support menus, text, and buttons in any language, including complex languages such as Arabic and Dari. Also, multiple Palantir Workspace clients configured in different languages can work simultaneously on the same Palantir server.

Below you can see screenshots from version 3.1 of the login screen in Dutch, the Map in Arabic and in Dari, and the Graph in Spanish. Contact us if you want to know more about our internationalization work.

Dutch

Arabic

Dari

Spanish

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI), in conjunction with Georgetown University, just completed a three and a half year project identifying the intricate network of co-conspirators in the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Palantir provided its software platform to the investigators to support analysis of the data and help identify the links between the key actors involved in that heinous crime. The Pearl Project was co-directed by former Wall Street Journal reporter and friend of Daniel Pearl, Asra Nomani, and Barbara Feinman Todd, Journalism director in Georgetown University’s English Department.

Check out CPI’s post about the Project, the full report, or take a look at a chart of the key figures in the crime. The videos below show examples of how Palantir’s software enabled the investigators to uncover, analyze, and understand the network.

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.

Download the WMV (31 MB) | Streaming Windows Media

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.

Download the WMV (17 MB) | Streaming Windows Media

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.