Visuals

INDICA offers a visual representation of your data. To access the visuals overview click on the “Visuals” button in the search overview.

There are a few tabs you can click on in the modal that pops up that will be discussed in the chapters below.

The graphs shown in the Location and Per Country tab also have a timeline underneath. Clicking and dragging your mouse over this timeline will set an extra filter on the graph. This updates the results in the graph to emails send in that specific time range.

Tip! To zoom the timeline back out again, double click on the timeline to reset

Location

This tab shows a visual representation of email communication around the world. Clicking on an item within the graph will filter the search results to emails send from that specific IP address.

Per Country

This tab shows a visual representation of email distribution per country.

Per type

This tab shows a visual representation of the available data types in the dataset.

Email

This tab shows a visual representation of email communication between different persons. There’s also a possibility to filter these from ‘ALL’ to ‘TO’, ‘CC’ or ‘BCC’. Hovering over items will show you the email addresses they’ve been in contact with.

  • Green lines Shows the node source(s). So the email account(s) that have send email(s) to that specific email address.

  • Red lines Shows the node target(s). So the email account(s) that specific email address has send email(s) to.

NLP Graph

This tab shows the NLP graph. It is possible to visually see documents, their Natural Language keywords, and the connections between them. This enables you to quickly see and discover connections between documents, based on the content of the documents.

In the graph, the number of documents is limited to 20. The blue circles are documents, the green circles are the NLP keywords. The green circles with a red border do not have a connection or more documents - other than its parent.

The displayed documents can be manipulated by applying a query to your data and opening the graph again.

The plot can be manipulated by dragging and dropping the circles, or by dragging the background to pan around. Using the mouse wheel will zoom in and out.

In the top left corner, some controls are provided:

  • Draggable scrollbar

    This increases and decreases the ‘gravity’ between nodes.

  • Filter icon

    This will filter out all the nodes that do not connect to more than one document.

  • Wand icon

    This enables automatic zooming. When nodes are not moving, it will zoom in and out automatically.

  • Magnifying glass

    Clicking this button will zoom in or out so all nodes are visible.

  • Reset icon

    Once one or more nodes are clicked, the selection can be reset with this button.

Double clicking a node will open the INDICA interface with a query applied to search for that node. This can be a keyword, or a document.

Filters are currently not applied to this graph.