How to Use the Network Navigator
Selecting your First Entity
When you first open this page, it
loads entity and relationship data
from the database. This may take a few
moments. Once it is complete, the
"Select an Entity" drop-down is
populated with a list of person and
organization values. Select a value from
the list and press the [Add Entity]
button. Your selected entity is shown in
the Navigator window. Building the
Network
When you click on an entity in the
Navigator, a popup menu of options is
displayed. Select the [Expand] option to
get all entities directly connected to
the current entity. The popup menu
also contains the following options:
- Remove: Remove the entity
from the graph
- View Details: Open the
related information page from
trackingthethreat.com
You can continue with this process to
discover the links between people,
places, organizations, etc. As you work
with the Navigator, you'll probably want
to reorganize the position of entities
to make the overall chart more
understandable. You can do this simply
by dragging entities to a new position.
Other Options
The Navigator offers other options:
- Icons: You can choose to
display entity icons in either color
or grayscale.
- Information Credibility:
Check this option to color code the
relationship lines based on
information credibility. Please note
that the values in the
trackingthethreat.com database for
information credibility are
currently test values, and do not
reflect the actual credibility of
open-source information that
entities or relationships are based
upon.
- Print: Press the [Print]
button to print the contents of the
Navigator surface.
- Clear Graph: Removes all
entities and relationships from the
Navigator.
- De-Select: Turns the
popup menu off for the currently
selected entity.
Going Forward
The Network Navigator represents only
the first step in making link analysis
tools available within a web browser.
Our current research and development
efforts are identifying other
new functionality, such as visually integrating
two-dimensional link analysis with
geospatial and other metaphors.
We welcome your feedback on how to
enhance these tools.
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