Analyst’s Notebook
Analyst’s Notebook provides the optimum environment for effective link and timeline analysis. It is the de facto standard for this type of analysis worldwide and is an essential visualisation application.
Analyst's Notebook satisfies customers varying requirements by providing powerful and flexible functionality via an intuitive Windows user interface. It can be tailored both to the needs of the organisation and to the analytical task in hand.
Using Analyst's Notebook you can:
- Quickly identify the common elements and connections hidden within your data.
- Easily explore and interpret complex information.
- Apply a comprehensive range of analytical techniques to develop your investigation.
- Graphically present results making them more accessible and easier to understand.
- Produce dynamic briefing charts by including photographs, video clips and documents.
- Rapidly change the representation of your chart from link analysis to timeline analysis, and vice versa.
- Quickly navigate around your charts and search for elements of data within it.
- Print your charts or disseminate them electronically to other interested parties.
Timeline charts are an ideal way to visualise the sequence of events in an enquiry and are very useful for piecing together various aspects of a crime.
The chart below is a simple representation of the sequence of events surrounding the Madrid Train bombings that occurred in March 2004. In this example theme lines run horizontally from left to right of screen and represent the trains and stations involved. Events sit on the theme lines and show the sequence of bomb blasts. Additional information such as maps of the area were sourced from online sources such as the BBC.
The next chart is an example of an analysis of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah who are aligned with AlQaeda. This chart combines a link chart showing the connections between individuals, organisations and events and a timeline chart showing terrorist bombings that have occurred in South East Asia.
Information used in this analysis is open source from the International Crisis Group and BBC News.
Analyst's Notebook is also ideal for the analysis of telephone billing records, the charts below showing some different visualisations on the same dataset. Users can change between visualisations within the application and can import data automatically to quickly visualise large datasets.
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