Sugartrail is a network analysis and visualisation tool developed to make it easier and faster for researchers to explore connections between companies, officers and addresses within Companies House. The tool can be used for the following use-cases:

Get all companies, officers and addresses connected to a company within n degrees of seperation, based upon user-defined connection criteria. If two companies are connected, get the path of companies, officers and addresses connecting those companies.
Check if two companies are connected, and if so get the path to show how they are connected.

Requirements

You will require an API key from Companies House to get data. First you will need to create a live application to get an API key which you can do by following the Companies House guide.

No-Install Usage

A hosted demo of the Sugartrail dashboard can be accessed here (might take a few seconds to load the page).

Demo

Installation

Make sure you have Conda installed
Download the tool's repository using the command:

git clone https://github.com/ribenamaplesyrup/sugartrail.git

Navigate to the main directory and run:

conda env create -f config/environment.yml
conda activate candystore
pip install -e .
jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix ipyleaflet

For a quickstart run voila --no-browser --debug --Voila.ip=0.0.0.0 dashboard/Sugartrail.ipynb --VoilaConfiguration.file_whitelist="['.*']" and navigate to the url printed in your terminal where Voilà is running at (no-code). For a more detailed explanation of the tool's capabilities, run jupyter notebook notebooks and open either quickstart.ipynb or 001_getting_started.ipynb.