Muckety
- Logo
Muckety reveals connections between wealthy and influential individuals and big corporations in the world
- URL
- http://www.muckety.com/
- Keywords
- network viz, power relationships, US, economic interests, who's who
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- 2006
- Launch Date
- 2006
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- Yes
- Thematic Focus
- Exposure
- Issue addressed
- Shadow influence
- Geographic Focus
- US
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Yes
- Query
- Yes
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- Network Visualisation
- Yes
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
Muckety publishes network maps and news stories to document paths of influence between government, business and nonprofit affiliations.
- Approach (How?)
- The ICIJ analyzed the leaked HSBC files and uncovered the profiles of the main protagonists of this huge financial scandal and revealed the role of countries which took part in this fraud. They did it using stories and by building an archive of the profiles.
- Language
- English
- Commissioner
- Self-commissionned
- Publisher
- Muckety LLC (US)
- Partners
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- Large Network
- (1454 followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- Online Rank
- Google: 4 Alexa: 1,238,423 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 41/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 62/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: Alexa:
- News Source
- Some
- Offline Audience Reached
- National
- Outcome
- N/A
- Last updated
- Oct 8, 2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- N/A
- Tool
- Database
- Frontend
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Medium
- Team Experience
- Research
- Dedicated
- Data Science
- Some
- Engineering
- Some
- Design
- Dedicated
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Traditional
- Open Source
- No
- Open Data
- No
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- Iterative
- Risk Planning
- No planning
- Sustainability Planning
- Updated
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: http://news.muckety.com/about-muckety
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- Relational
- Ethical Collection
- No guidelines
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- Trained Collectors
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- Corroborated
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking
- Data Description
- No
- Data Licensing
- Partial
- Ethical Publishing
- Not documented
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- No