May 12 2016
Politicians are by far the most referenced occupation in the Panama Papers. That’s according to a chart created by a data researcher from Denmark, who used Wikidata to plot the occupations associated with those featured in the leaked documents.
Finn Årup Nielsen, senior researcher from the department of applied math and computer science at the Technical University of Denmark, published the bubble chart on his blog.
It appears to show that politicians are mentioned most often, followed by lawyers, business people, entrepreneurs, and those working in association football.
Nielsen said the flaw with the Wikidata means that only people who are notable enough to get their own Wikipedia page will be included in the data, which might mean many smaller business people featured in the papers don’t count towards the bubble chart.