Tag: finance
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Chip – the Algorithmic Savings App
I came across an App, while aimlessly surfing, it’s an algorithmic savings plan. I think that is the best way to describe it, or at least its a way to describe it. The point of Chip is that when you sign up you get a savings account, held by Barclays Bank PLC, and the app…
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Complexity and the collapse of the financial system – from the Archive
Originally Posted on January 14, 2015 by Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience by Philip Garnett and Brett Cherry Finance influences everything, from the growth of businesses and employment to capital and even public services. As the world becomes increasingly subject to the all-encompassing influence of financialisation, it is confronted with problems that require new perspectives from studies in complex systems.…
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Business History – Banks, births, and tipping points
We have a new piece published in Business History, Complexity in History: modelling the organisational demography of the British banking sector. Continuing our work modelling the British banking sector we have responded to the very interesting comment by J Bissell, “The decline in the British bank population since 1810 obeys a law of negative compound…
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Panama Revisted
The people over at The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists have updated the released panama data. Its not clear to me if that is more data than they had already released, or that this time it is a ready made Neo4J database. They provide two versions of the database, Windows and Mac. Its easy to get…
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Java Panama Papers Neo4J Network Generator
Further to the first attempt at importing the Panama Papers network data into Neo4J I did a very quick Java program that greats an embedded Neo4J database. It needs a bit of checking as it finds nodes that have the same node_id. Which I assume is some sort of mistake in the program or the…
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Panama Papers: Import Data to Neo4J using Cypher
I downloaded the panama paper network data, I was hoping it would be all the data, sadly not. Its it still interesting however. The import process is not to tricky. The following Cypher commands will get the data into a running Neo4J database. Note there is a \” in the Addresses file that will break…