Tools & Methods

How I gather, analyze, build, and keep track. Working knowledge = used to build real things, not claimed mastery.

Toolset and methods

How I keep track

Everything is a note, and everything is linked. Organizations, programs, people, and findings each become a note; the links become a graph, and the graph is the ecosystem map. Data pipelines turn scattered records into something queryable.

KNIME data-pipeline workflow
Data pipelines (KNIME). Visual, reproducible workflows that clean, join, and transform records at scale.
Obsidian ecosystem graph, labels removed
Ecosystem graph (Obsidian). Every note linked; hubs are the actors everything routes through, isolated clusters are the gaps. Labels removed for confidentiality.

Jacob Allen Freitag · Altigad. Click any image to enlarge.