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IN-SPIRE™ Visual Document Analysis

FAQ: What does the ThemeView™ peak height and color tell me?

The labels flagging the peaks reveal what the strongest themes are under those peaks. Areas of documents having very similar thematic content contain tall peaks, while areas of documents having weaker thematic relationships to each other never rise above sea level. The coloring of a ThemeView™ lets you know how far above sea level a region is—yellow being the highest. If the documents in a region are practically void of any thematic content, they are represented at sea level height on the ThemeView. If there are only one or two documents in a region, but they are unusually packed full of topical content, they are represented as tall peaks on the ThemeView.

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