Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
I've been working on a project called Aleph (<a href="https://github.com/pudo/aleph" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pudo/aleph</a>, live: <a href="http://data.occrp.org/" rel="nofollow">http://data.occrp.org/</a>), which is targeted at investigative reporters. It's supposed to handle a related set of problems, which is data integration of diverse public records and journalistic lead generation (i.e. what to investigate next). The road map for the coming two years includes some visual analytics similar to what I guess most people use Palantir for (we'll have to keep it very simple).<p>The big problem in NGO space is obviously finding engineers: we've got some budget for this stuff, but getting people to join us, work at a lower salary and then code their heart out (because teams are tiny) is hard.<p>On the fun side, you get to see your code applied to fighting real-world problems every day :)