We recently had the opportunity to work with criminal defense counsel on a case with an interesting set of facts. It was known that three people traveled across state lines, and that illegal activities ensued. The precise nature of these activities, and the motivations of the people involved, however, were hotly disputed. The legal team had access to cellular tower location call records of the parties involved, and had a hunch that much could be learned from studying this data. But there were literally thousands of calls, and the phone companies provided records in a format that wasn’t exactly easy to work with (understatement alert). Our job was to create a way to visualize and interrogate this data so the attorneys could develop the story of their case.
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