Visualization

Visualizations are where sources and documents come to life.

You can view complex geo-spatial and temporal document aggregations as intuitive graphs, and easily filter queries and results directly from the widgets.  Furthermore, you can view document scoring parameters as metrics, including significance, relevance and frequency.

Visualization Capabilities

The visualization widgets provide a broad suite of tools to gain insights into your source documents.  An overview of this functionality is provided here

• See an overview of your  documents with their key scoring metrics and aggregations using Doc. Viewer (enterprise) and Query Metrics
• Build up complex cases by grouping entities and events as related information using Case Visualizer (Enterprise)
• Merge multiple entities that represent the same person/thing using the Alias Manager (Enterprise).
• See geo-spatial and temporal aggregations using Event Timeline, and Map.

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Getting Started

Once you have successfully imported your sources into specific IKANOW Communities, you can select these sources for visualization, and then query them in order to visualize the data.

Selecting Sources for Visualization

Once you have successfully imported your sources into specific IKANOW Communities, you can select these sources for visualization.

To select a source to run queries against

1. From the User Interface, click on Sources.  The Source Manager screen is displayed.
2. Click on Community to filter the sources in the list by Community.

3. Place a checkmark next to the Communities from which you would like to view sources.  The list of Sources refreshes with only the Sources linked to the selected Communities.

4. Ensure that checkmarks are placed next to all of the desired sources.
5. Click on Search.  If any queries are present in the query browser, they are run against the selected sources and the results are returned.
   
   

Querying the Sources

Once you have selected the appropriate Sources, you can run queries against the sources, in order to obtain results.  The results can be visualized, using the Visualization widgets.

To query the sources

1. Using the Query Browser at top left, enter a query term.  As you type, Entity Suggest will suggest entities to help you complete the query.
2. Once you have properly entered the term, click on the magnifying glass.  The query is run against the sources, and the results are returned.  You can visualize the results using the Visualization widgets.

Advanced Query Builder

You can use the Advanced Query Builder to help build more sophisticated queries to run against your sources.

To use the advanced query builder

1. From the User Interface click on Advanced.  The Advanced Query Builder is displayed
2. Click on the plus sign to add a new query term.  Provide one of the supported Search Terms as described in the table below
   

    

   Search Term	Description
   Search Term/Entity	Provide a free-text search term or entity.
   Event	Provide a specific event (association) using standard noun/verb/noun syntax.
   Location	Provide a location using Latitude, Longitude and radius measurements.
   Date	Provide a specific calendar date.

   
   
   

3.  Click on Search.  The advanced query is executed against the sources and the results are returned.

Adding a Search Term/Entity

From the advanced query builder, you can add a search term

To add a search term

1. From the advanced query editor click on the plus sign
2. Enter the term, and click on Add.

Adding an Event

From the advanced query builder, you can add an Event

To add a search term

1. From the advanced query editor click on the plus sign
2. Click on the Event symbol.
3. Enter the Event query. eg. Entity 1-Verb-Entity 2
4. Click on Add.

Adding a Location

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Adding a Date

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Saving and Loading Advanced Queries

 You can save useful queries for re-use.

Exporting a Query

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Importing a Query

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