About
In October 2003 the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission placed 200,000 of Enron's internal emails from 1999-2002 into the public domain as part of its ongoing investigations. The archive offers an extraordinary window into the lives and preoccupations of Enron's top executives during a turbulent period. Read more about Enron's demise on Wikipedia.
Trampoline engineers used this data as testbed during development of the company's SONAR technology. The result was so fascinating we decided to open it up and allow anyone to dig in. The Enron Explorer lets you investigate the actions and reactions of Enron's senior management team as the noose began to tighten.
How to use it
Click a name in the panel below to open an Enron executive's mailbox. Read any email by clicking the subject. Enron Explorer analyses each person's main contacts and the themes they're talking about. Launch the Visualiser to see each person's social network (Java required). Click a contact in the Visualiser to shift the focus to them and load their mailbox, contacts and themes. Click a theme to access all relevant emails.
Enron executives
- Kenneth Lay (CEO)
- Andrew Fastow (CFO)
- Jeffrey Skilling (CEO)
- Jeff Dasovich (Director)
- Susan Mara (Director)
- Richard Shapiro (VP)
- Steven Kean (VP)
- James Steffes (VP)
- Paul Kaufman (VP)
- Sara Shackleton (VP)
- Tana Jones
- Mark Taylor