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.
TALKING POINTS:
Many Enron employees took MBA courses at UC Berkeley HAAS Business School.
Since the Enron bankruptcy, classes at UC Berkeley School Of Information began to analyze Enron’s emails, as early as 2004. Like this one: http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-2/f04/assignments/a4_solutions/qu_poon.doc.
In this document, they search for “Talking Points“: an especially persuasive point helping to support an argument or discussion.
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