What is an event?
An event is defined as a set of unique documents published within a short time frame containing similar wording. In the media, events are typically reported on by a number of publications in quick succession, enabling this detection.
Events are displayed in both a newsfeed and a table view. The newsfeed can be sorted by recency or significance, searched by keyword, and filtered by significance or sentiment. Reducing the significance filter to 1 or 0 will include single document events in the feed potentially of less relevance and/or prominence, while increasing the filter to 3 or more will refine the feed to show only the most relevant events, typically (but not always) multi-document clusters.
Access the table view of events by clicking on the two-column button below the Events icon:
Event Summary Page
Clicking on the title of any event in the newsfeed or table will take you to an in-depth view of the event, including details on extracted entities and original source material. Primer provides tables of quotes, numbers, people, organizations and locations for each event.
After accessing an Event, Primer provides a variety of high-level insights on the Summary Page.
First, there are 3 summaries presented, that are designed to be independently comprehensive yet highlight different details from the event. We’ve also included quick access to key insights, including documents, quotes, numbers, and entities.
If an event matches up with one of our “Event Types” or “Classifiers”, click on the text, and the context for why an event was paired with a particular classifier will pop-up on a panel on the right side of the screen:
For certain events, Primer will provide an event timeline to help you understand the historical context for your event. We’ve analyzed millions of documents throughout time and connected the dots for you. The event timeline allows you to:
See all events that led up to and happened after a particular event
Click on an event in the timeline to access a summary
Some events will also have video content displayed. If there is a Youtube video embedded in one of the articles for an event, it will be displayed on the summary page, as seen below:
We will also display the 4 most significant tweets embedded in the source articles. The significance of the tweets displayed are determined by total interactions:
Please let us know what you think of the Event Summary page, and what other information you would like to see us include in future versions!