munge together acquired companies or no?

We do so right now with Magento + Adobe (we count anyone who has "Magento" in their company profile name as an Adobe employee). There are open questions as to whether or not to do this for IBM+RedHat and MSFT+GitHub.

Doing so at data-scraping-time destroys valuable info: how much of a company's activity is contributed to by an acquired company? It would be better to allow to delineate between this information.

One option: these 'mungings' could be applied at the BigQuery level. That way, at BigQuery-time, we can choose to run analyses that delineate (or not) acquired companies.

Start by locating the data-scraping path and the BigQuery analysis layer described in the issue. Determine where acquired-company relationships are currently merged, then define how analyses can choose between delineated and merged company data.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.