Occupations of persons from Panama Papers

POSTED ON MAY 10, 2016 UPDATED ON MAY 11, 2016

OCCUPATIONS OF PERSONS FROM PANAMA PAPERS FINN RUP NIELSEN'S BLOG

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Can we get an overview of the occupations of the persons associated with the Panama Papers? Well that
might be difficult, but we can get a biased plot by using the listing in Wikidata, where persons associated with the
Panama Papers seems to be tagged and where their occupation(s) is listed. It produces the plot below.

It is fairly straightforward to construct such a bubble chart given the new plotting capabilities in the Wikidata
Query Service. Dutch Wikipedian Gerard Meijssen seems to have been the one who has entered the information
in Wikidata linking Panama Papers to persons via the significant event property. How complete he yet has
managed to do this I do not know. Our Danish Wikipedian Ole Palnatoke Andersen set up a page on the Danish
Wikipedia atDiskussion:Panama-papirerne/Wikidata tabulating with the nice Listeria tool of Magnus Manske.
Modifying Oles SPARQL query we can get the count of occupations for the persons associated with the Panama
Papers in Wikidata.
SELECT ?occupationLabel(count(distinct ?person) as ?count) WHERE {
?person wdt:P793 wd:Q23702848 ; wdt:P106 ?occupation .
service wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }

} group by ?occupationLabel

Some people may see that politicians are the largest group, but that might simply be an artifact of the notability
criterion of Wikidata: Only people who are somewhat notable or are linked to something notable are likely to be
included in Wikidata, e.g., the common businessman/woman may not (yet?) be represented in Wikidata.
The bubble chart cuts letters of the words for the occupation. murd is murderer. Joaqun Guzmn has his
occupation set to murderer in Wikidata, without source