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Overview

Purpose: View You can use the Entity Significance widget to view the entities across all documents, ranked by score or frequency.

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 This is Useful for seeing the entities that are common or significant within a dataset.

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Here's a quick explanation of significance (for the record, we came up with it first!): http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/significant-terms-aggregation/

 

About Significance

Significance is an important concept when viewing entities using the Entity Significance widget.

Significance can be thought of as a way of measuring interesting or uncommon occurrences of terms in a data set.  he more interesting or uncommon a specific term, the more it can be said to have significance.  Significance can be an important source of insight, and can impart a lot of analytic value for many use cases: measuring geographic anomalies, credit card fraud detection, product recommendation to name only a few.

The Entity Significance widget describes significance using the following metrics:

Query Coverage:

Query Significance:

MaxDoc Significance:

MaxDoc Frequency:

 

 

Using the Widget

Workspace Filtering

Another option is to filter your result set across the entire workspace, think of this as a temporary sub-query within your query results. Examples:

Entity Significance: Double click on an entity to filter, the other widgets in your workspace will populate with only the documents that contain that particular entity.

 

Dragging to the

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Case Visualizer

Entity Significance to Case Visualizer

  • Individual or multiple entities can be selected and dragged to Graph

  • Hold Ctrl (PC) or Command (Mac) and select entities, then drag & drop the    icon to the Case Visualizer

  • Entities dragged together will all be linked by coreference

  • Entities dragged from the Entity Significance widget will contain a Infinit.e workspace link in their node properties which will lead a user to the

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Thorough explanation of significance: http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/significant-terms-aggregation/