Today I’m proud to announce that I’ve published Relato’s business graph database (here) on data.world. The database contains nearly 400,000 links between companies, with types ranging from partnerships to competitor relationships. My hope is that the open data community will find it useful and contribute new edges to the network.

https://data.world/datasyndrome/relato-business-graph-database

A MarketMap we made using the database for a poster at O’Reilly Strata

Relato collected a significant portion of the business graph while it operated for two years. Since the company shut down, that data has sat there providing zero value to anyone. This keeps me up at night, that my work over the course of two years died completely. I want my work to live on, and this is how I’m doing it.

By publishing this data to the world under the creative commons license, I hope to enable researchers to peer into the fabric of the world of business. I hope to enable startups to build better widgets. I hope to improve research into the business graph. I hope that this data is useful in some small way, to someone.

{ "home_name" : "F5 Networks", "link_name" : "Dell", "type" : "partnership", "home_domain" : "f5.com", "link_domain" : "dell.com" }

{ "home_name" : "F5 Networks", "link_name" : "AT&T", "type" : "partnership", "home_domain" : "f5.com", "link_domain" : "att.com" }

{ "home_name" : "F5 Networks", "link_name" : "Verizon", "type" : "partnership", "home_domain" : "f5.com", "link_domain" : "verizon.com" }

{ "home_name" : "F5 Networks", "link_name" : "Hewlett Packard", "type" : "partnership", "home_domain" : "f5.com", "link_domain" : "hp.com" }

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data.world

One of the cool features of data.world is the ability to view and query the data. I didn’t have to do anything to make this go. I just uploaded a gzipped JSON Lines dump of the mongo database and it was queryable. This is a really cool capability, and I’m amped to be using data.world!

data.world data interface

This goes way beyond what Infochimps did, and I am excited to see how these features might be used to query this business graph joined to other datasets. Check it out, and see what you can do!

Conclusion

I hope you find this dataset useful. If you do, please drop me a line and let me know! I would be thrilled to hear about what you’re doing with this data, that my work might live on and benefit others.

Finally… if you need help working with this dataset, or with building a product driven by graph analytics, Data Syndrome is here to help! We specialize in building analytics products from scratch, top to bottom. Check us out here. Or contact me here.