💻Data

What we use to power this project.

If you are curious about our reasoning behind the certain aspects of the Data, check out our What criteria do you use to collect project data? page in the Frequently Asked Questions section.

The baseline product of this project is data, sourced from individuals like you, which feeds the Graph, Map, and Timeline (along with any future efforts or forks).

Initial Data Set

We wanted to start simply, so we took a play from all the existing efforts or maps we could find and dumped everything into Google Sheets to get started:

Data

🔗 Data - Project on Innovation in National Security (Google Sheets)

Click the above link to open Google Sheets and view the Data - the first page will be a README and then you can view other sheets with different Elements.

You will notice (after opening the Data) that there are tabs on the bottom to explore Entities and Connections - feel free and do that while checking out the Graph to get a sense of how it works (HINT: it's not that complicated).

Future Data Sets

We know that Google Sheets is going to start running into issues when we start working with a lot more data and types of Entities (not to mention addressing the Dimensionality problems and figuring out Tags).

We have some Partners in mind to try and help with this, but, for now, we are just hoping to give a little bit of a sense for how data is structured and then move forward with better infrastructure and tools as we go.

If you have ideas or questions, but all means, Contact Us!