Detecting Human Rights Violations Using Medium Resolution Imagery
Dr. Andrew Marx of the US Department of State and a fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide, developed a novel method for analyzing archived data from NASA’s...
View ArticleDatafication and You
“This overturns centuries of established practices and challenges our most basic understanding of how to make decisions and comprehend reality.” –Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live,...
View ArticleOne year after Sandy, revolutionizing disaster response with CGI, Team...
This week marks the one year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy’s landfall on the eastern seaboard of the United States. It’s an occasion to remember those who lost their lives to the storm, and to be...
View ArticleC4ADS and the Odessa Network: Understanding Illicit Networks Using Palantir...
C4ADS has been in the spotlight lately. A front-page story in a recent Sunday edition of the Washington Post highlighted the D.C.-based organization’s data-driven research into illicit networks...
View ArticleHow we’re building an information infrastructure for Typhoon Haiyan response...
Typhoon Haiyan has claimed the lives of thousands and displaced millions more. Along with other aid organizations from around the world, our disaster response partners Team Rubicon and Direct Relief...
View ArticleAnnouncing three open source projects for developing with TypeScript
Although Palantir is mostly known as a Java Swing shop, we have quietly (or not so quietly) been building for the web for a while now. From D3 for stunning graphics to Backbone and Angular for...
View ArticleNew Office for NCMEC, New Possibilities
We officially welcomed our long-time partner The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to Palo Alto last Thursday. Since 1984, NCMEC has worked tirelessly to protect children...
View ArticleHow Many Years a Slave?
Each year, human traffickers reap an estimated $32 billion in profits from the enslavement of 21 million people worldwide. And yet, for most of us, modern slavery remains invisible. Its victims, many...
View ArticleGoing International with the Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and...
In 2012, our PCL team assembled the Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCAP), a body of experts in the privacy and civil liberties field who help us understand and address the...
View ArticleThe Palantir Scholarship for Women in Engineering Finalists Are Here
Virtual labs where doctors and prosthetic designers can collaborate in the same “room.” Touch screen interfaces for cars. Robots that work with autistic children. Sequencing the genome of cancer cells....
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