Rashida KamalinEnigmaData Through Design: A Tactile Take on Open DataData Through Design, a newly installed art exhibit created in honor of NYC’s Open Data Week, offers data enthusiasts a rare treat: a…Mar 7, 20183Mar 7, 20183
Rashida KamalinEnigmaLook at the Logs! (FOIA Edition)In our recent public records examination of Theranos, a now-disfavored medical technology startup, we noticed that FOIA requests sometimes…Mar 1, 2018Mar 1, 2018
Rashida KamalinEnigmaHow Public Data Drives Proactive Prevention of Financial Crimes in the Wake of DisasterIt is no secret that financial fraud follows natural disasters. The two are so closely entwined that the Justice Department saw it fit to…Dec 21, 20171Dec 21, 20171
Rashida KamalinEnigmaTheranos: Tracking a Startup in Trouble via Public DataTheranos, a medical technology startup born in the dormitories of Stanford University, had a meteoric rise and an equally spectacular fall.Dec 5, 2017Dec 5, 2017
Rashida KamalinEnigmaTrend Watching Across FinCEN’s Suspicious Activity DataThis is the first post in a new series on Suspicious Activity Report trends Enigma will produce in an effort to make valuable shared…Nov 17, 2017Nov 17, 2017
Rashida KamalinEnigmaUncovering Intel in FinCEN Suspicious Activity DataAs Paul Manafort’s recent troubles demonstrate, records of suspicious financial activity can be instrumental to an investigation. Prior to…Nov 16, 2017Nov 16, 2017
Rashida KamalinEnigmaPeering into Catastrophe through a Corporate RSS FeedAfter Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) developed an unexpected, albeit informal, metric for understanding…Oct 4, 2017Oct 4, 2017
Rashida KamalinEnigmaPublic Data: Moving from Information to InsightTake it from someone who spent their summer wading through public data: even the most open data portal can hide a few surprises.Aug 29, 2017Aug 29, 2017
Rashida KamalinEnigmaA New Lending Strategy: Loans That Are Too Big to FailRepresentative Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), the primary sponsor of the House Financial CHOICE Act, does not mince words when it comes to the 2010…Aug 24, 2017Aug 24, 2017
Rashida KamalinEnigmaProduct Safety: Pants and Fidget Spinners on FireOnesies don’t seem like obvious sources of fear. But it seems that children’s clothing often poses a greater fire risk to the American…Aug 21, 2017Aug 21, 2017