[bottom999mottob]

This sounds like the video game Orwell where you investigate social graphs to find dissidents of the state.

Of course the NSA has been doing this for years, but their UI probably isn't as pretty as Palantir's :)

[immibis]

Pretty, but above all convenient , UI matters much more than programmers think. It's the difference between seeing a tree of comments like on HN, and a raw Usenet stream.