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Associations can be "something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance", "the outcome, issue, or result of anything", or "something that occurs in a certain place during a particular interval of time" (Definitions found here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/event). Within Infinit.e events are typically a combination of entities assembled in the form of Noun - Verb - Noun, e.g. "a car crashed into a building", "the plane flew to San Diego". In addition to the Noun - Verb - Noun form events can include geographic information (i.e., where an event happened) as well as a start and/or end time for an event.

Examples

Basic Association

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In the example, the associations code block has been configured to act on the entity that represents the username of the Twitter user.  It also takes into account a secondary entity representing the hashtag of the user's tweet.  It acts on the document metadata values that have been provided.

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