The growing adoption of visual analytics tools such as Tibco Spotfire has revolutionized the way that scientists interpret structured data, such as SAR analyses conducted by medicinal chemists. There remains, however , a wealth of valuable insight contrained within unstructured content sources such such as patents and scientific literature, where critical information is contained. These text based sources do not fit nicely within the traditional model of  organizing information as database records and require other techniques to derive insight from them.    Text analytics technologies such as those developed by Attivio, in combination with visual analytics tools, can uncover new trends and patterns within unstructured content sources. We will outline relevant usecases where such technologies were applied to develop the research strategies of scientific organizations by  incorporating analysis around identification of research adjacencies, key opinion leaders and geographical and historical trends of research.

Structuring the unstructured: Creating knowledge through visual analytics and the use of Tibco Spotfire with Attivio for text analytics of scientific patents

248th National Meeting (2014)

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