Referenced in our Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 1 - January 2003
Temporal Grid Link Chart
The following diagram was generated using the Temporal Grid - one of VisuaLinks' many placement algorithms.
The layout is configured to show the Day-of-Week across the X-axis and the Week-of-Year down the Y-axis.
The first row and column of each axis is used to support a null value. Each row in this diagram represents
a week during the year, giving 52 rows. The top row is January and the bottom row is December.
The columns are ordered from Sunday through Saturday.
The data shown in the diagram represent suspicious cash transfers into and out of a casino.
Such filings are required by the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act when casinos believes that questionable
activities are being conducted in their establishments. The data shown below represent activities
associated with a single individual. The filled-in squares indicate that a transaction was filed on the day indicated.
Using this diagram, you can see that this individual is conducting his cash transactions on weekends.
Since the first column represents null values, the second column represents Sundays and the right-most
column represents Saturdays. The red squares tend to be paired on the second and last columns, indicating
weekend gambling behavior. The periods of activity tend to focus around weekends and holidays and the
periods of inactivity tend to occur during Spring and Fall work periods. Based on the observed behavior,
this individual can easily be tracked and correlated with other events and activities, such as holidays.
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