Overview
You can use the Event Timeline widget to show timestamped associations between entities over time, including the start/end times of long running associations. This is useful for seeing the temporal analysis, as the event graph does not include time as a dimension.
About the Event Timeline
When associations are displayed on a timeline they are the same as those within the documents, except that scoring is different:
The entity significances are not included
The association significance ("assoc_sig") is simply the Pythagorean significance of all documents in which the association is included
Where times are not included intrinsically in the association, they are filled in to span the time range of the documents including them
The Entity Timeline widget can display the following types of associations: Events, facts, and Summaries.
"Events" and "Summaries" with the same time range (ie "time_start", "time_end" pair) are aggregated, with "doccount" used to store the sum. For "Facts", the "time_start" and "time_end" are set to the newest and oldest dates in which the "Fact" occurs (ie this may give some useful time range over which it is being discussed), with "doccount" counting all instances of the "Fact" within that time range.
Using the Widget
Viewing Event Data on the Timeline
You can expand each individual event on the timeline to view more detailed information.
To view event data
- From the Event Timeline widget, click on the plus sign of a particular event.
Additional information is displayed, including Start date, End Date, Significance, Doc. Count etc.
Viewing Entity Links
You can view detailed information about the entities involved in an event.
To view entity links
- From the event timeline, click on plus sign
- Under Entity Links, click on one of the links.
The entity links page loads, displaying related entities, activities, related documents, and any important relationships.
Setting Time Decay Date
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Adding the visible time range to Query
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