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Our first-ever Intern Night Live
Just a week after the last group of summer interns arrived, we hosted their official welcome to the company at Intern Night Live. The event featured founder Stephen Cohen, who shared how his own...
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Shyam Sankar speaks at TEDGlobal 2012
TED invited Shyam Sankar, Director of Forward Deployed Engineering, to speak at TEDGlobal 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Shyam used the opportunity to discuss Human-Computer Symbiosis: the idea that...
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Dinner with Peter Thiel and the Exploratorium: an Intern’s Saturday Night
Peter Thiel. Twenty-foot tornadoes to touch. Bite-sized PB&J macaroons. No, you’re not dreaming. You’re at Palantir Intern Night 2012. On July 14, interns from across the Bay Area experienced a...
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Journalist uses Palantir to investigate illicit Human Tissue Trafficking
Palantir donated software to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in support of a four-part investigative series on the global trade and illegal trafficking of human...
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Giving back in our own way: the Philanthropy Team
Since our earliest days, the people that make up Palantir have always been passionate about two things: building the best technology to change the way that people relate to data and deploying that...
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Guava Collections Subtleties
At Palantir, we write most of our code in Java, but we miss functional language features like map and filter for working with collections of objects. To make up for that, we use Google’s Guava...
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In an earlier demonstration on this blog, we showed how a single analyst used Palantir Metropolis to uncover an actual cyber threat at one of Palantir’s largest commercial deployments. However, in many...
View ArticleA Study in Cell Phones
A recent story in the New York Times, “More Demands on Cell Carriers in Surveillance,” describes the response by cellular service providers to an inquiry from Rep. Edward J. Markey, in which the...
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Adaptive Management and the Analysis of California’s Water Resources
Water resource management in California is a precarious and costly balancing act. Various federal, state, and municipal organizations have a stake in the management of California’s water resources. In...
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Product Support at Palantir: Let Me Help You With That
(Comic courtesy of XKCD, via Creative Commons License) When a user has to contact Product Support for help, he or she already has a problem. Dealing with Support should never add aggravation on top of...
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How to Rock a Developer Phone Interview
We wrote a popular series of posts last year on how to rock Palantir on-site interviews. However, this advice does you no good if you don’t make it past the first hurdle: the phone interview. In this...
View ArticlePredictive policing: A window into future crimes or future privacy violations?
In some sense, police have long been in the business of going beyond reactive law enforcement, using information from various sources (e.g., anonymous tips and leads) as well as historical analyses to...
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Grameen Foundation & Palantir: Partners for Food Security
A Grameen Foundation Community Knowledge worker speaks with a Ugandan farmer. A piece recently published on both the Scientific American and Fast Company’s CoExist websites highlights our most recent...
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Elbow Licking in Sudan: The Spread and Decline of Mass Unrest in Summer 2012
Disputes between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan led to a halt in oil production in early 2012, bringing an economic crisis to both countries. On June 16, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Palantir Council on Privacy and Civil Liberties
Last month, at Palantir’s GovCon8 event, our CEO, Dr. Alex Karp, announced the creation of the Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCAP). This Council of experts has been...
View ArticlePalantir Hack Week 2012
Hack Week 2012 Hack Week is a hallowed tradition at Palantir, a time when all scheduled work stops and our engineers spend a week exploring new ideas, playing with different technologies, and building...
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Introducing Code 33
Code 33: the new Palantir Gotham web client One of the most exciting things about Palantir is that nothing is sacred when it comes to our technology. We’re constantly asking ourselves, “What would we...
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Philanthropy Engineers embed with Team Rubicon for Hurricane Sandy Relief
Since 4 November, Palantir’s Philanthropy Engineering team has been supporting Team Rubicon’s Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. We have engineers on the ground in Brooklyn and Far Rockaway who are...
View ArticlePanel features Palantir Women on Working in Tech
On November 13, Pooja Sankar, CEO of Piazza, an online Q&A platform used by students and teachers, sat down with four women at Palantir to discuss their experiences working in technology....
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