You probably can’t read all the 252K email messages in the Enron email dataset by yourself.
But with SQL it’s easy to search for keywords, like “Special Purpose Entity”, “Bankrupt”, “Fraud”, “Shutdown”, “Talking Points”, “FERC” and so on. They begin to reveal what really went on inside the minds at Enron.
“I wish we could get caught. We are such a crooked company.” Sherron Watkins – former Vice President of Corporate Development at Enron
What can we discover about Enron’s People Of Interest by analyzing their email using SQL? Among other things, there was some very abusive management at Enron.
What can we discover analyzing Enron emails using SQL? Quite a bit actually.