IN-SPIRE™
Concept
IN-SPIRE is a powerful collection of visual analysis tools designed to support deep investigation of text documents. The Galaxy visualization (top image) uses the metaphor of stars in the night sky where each star represents a document. Closely related documents cluster together while unrelated documents are further apart. Galaxies help users to understand what is in a document collection and allows them to explore the context of their specific interests.
In ThemeView™, dominant themes are shown in a relief map of natural terrain. Themes are represented by peaks and their height indicates relative strength within the document set. It spatially corresponds to the Galaxy view so the two complementary visualizations can be used together.
Many analytical tools are provided to work in concert with the visualizations, allowing users to investigate the document groupings, query the document contents, investigate time-based trends, and much more.
Status
More information can be found at the IN-SPIRE web site.