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Overwhelmed with information but can't make heads or tails out of it? Industry and government face this challenge every day as they try to stay ahead of the competition or understand national security risks.

The ability to uncover relationships, trends, and themes hidden within data can lead to new knowledge and new insights that could be used to assess terrorist threats, determine how to treat a medical condition, or gather market research on the competition. IN-SPIRE™, powerful information visualization software developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), can give people the ability to see something different in the data they already have. 

IN-SPIRE™ can quickly and automatically convey the gist of large sets of unformatted text documents such as technical reports, web data, newswire feeds, and message traffic. IN-SPIRE™ can handle real-time data by adding new documents as they arrive. It also processes foreign language data and provides robust support for translation. By clustering similar documents together, this Windows-based software unveils common themes and reveals hidden relationships within the collection. IN-SPIRE™ allows analysts to spend more time exploring the information they find most relevant and less time sifting through the masses of irrelevant documents.

IN-SPIRE™ analyzes a multitude of text files and determines key topics or themes in each to create a signature for each document in the collection. IN-SPIRE's two main visualizations display representations of the documents in which those with similar or related topics appear closer together. The Galaxy visualization uses the metaphor of the stars in the night sky with each star representing an individual document. The ThemeView™ visualization uses a three-dimensional terrain map display to provide a high-level overview of the data.

Search tools in IN-SPIRE™ support simple queries, phrase queries, and queries with example text. Other tools help explore trends over time and relationships between concepts. All the tools in IN-SPIRE™ leverage the power of the Galaxy and ThemeView™ visualizations.

Contact

IN-SPIRE™ Development and Technical Questions

Dave Long
(509) 372-6308
david.long@pnnl.gov

IN-SPIRE™ Software Support

Dave Gillen
(509) 375-5935
dave.gillen@pnnl.gov