Follow the money has been the informal motto of white collar investigators for generations. Three minutes from HBO's show The Wire explain the process perfectly.
The [revamped documentation](https://followthemoney.tech/docs/) for FollowTheMoney includes detailed guidance on how to produce and consume entities and graph relationships. FtM 4.0 is also a milestone on the path towards the next major version of [OpenAleph](https://openaleph.org/), an open source data analysis platform used by investigators in media and non-profits. Our friends at the [Data and Research Center](https://dataresearchcenter.org/) are starting significant work to bring statement-based provenance and simplified import of FtM datasets to the platform in the coming months. Going forward, we are excited that FtM will continue to evolve as a [community of practice](https://followthemoney.tech/community/stack/) for people and organisations working on investigative knowledge graphs, and a place for building shared infrastructure to fight financial crime. Thanks to [Till Prochaska](https://github.com/tillprochaska), [Simon Wörpel](https://dataresearchcenter.org/who-we-are/), [Klil Eden](https://www.occrp.org/en), and the OpenSanctions engineering team for their contributions to this release. * Read the [release notes](https://github.com/opensanctions/followthemoney/releases/tag/v4.0.0). * Visit the [home page](https://followthemoney.tech/). * Slide deck [about FollowTheMoney](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vMBkOAhfZ1fzdhiKCDKkS_RDiq_KxKgvMfTGfaPzD1w/edit?slide=id.g31d277ec63a_0_12#slide=id.g31d277ec63a_0_12) from ConnectedData London 2024 * Python: `pip install followthemoney` * TypeScript: `npm install @opensanctions/followthemoney` * Java: `tech.followthemoney:followthemoney` * Report issues and share your ideas on the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/opensanctions/followthemoney)