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Weekly News Digest
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April 26, 2004 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Inxight Introduces Visual Timeline Tool
Inxight Software, Inc. (http://www.inxight.com) announced Inxight TimeWall, its new visual timeline analysis tool. The company claims that, by seeing into the past, users are better able to predict future events and illustrate important facts and trends. TimeWall is available as a component of Inxight VizServer, an integrated solution for accessing, organizing, and visualizing large datasets. The company also announced that In-Q-Tel (http://www.in-q-tel.org), a private not-for-profit venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is the first customer for TimeWall.TimeWall displays data on an interactive, three-dimensional "wall" that allows analysts and other decision makers to view huge data sets on one screen, at the same time giving them the ability to focus on specific areas of interest. This ability ensures that the context of the entire data set is not lost. When the user spots a cluster of activity, a simple click moves that period of time into focus, allowing the user to see the specifics of the events—what happened in what order—and includes links to the original information source. Users can also filter views to show only the data that are of specific interest to them. Dates reside on the horizontal axis. These can be as fine-grained or broad as the underlying data support. Categories reside on the vertical axis. These can represent entities such as locations, people, or companies. Cards on the wall represent individual events, which can be color-coded. Filters help narrow down information by either numeric ranges or text selections. Plug-ins allow TimeWall to access and present data from virtually any data source, whether structured or unstructured. Source: Inxight Software, Inc.
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