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Documents Page in News Search

Understanding the documents section in News Search

The Documents page displays the full list of unique documents associated with a query and allows you to filter a table of results by sources, sentiment, location, and more. This page allows you to search across the articles that comprise the trends and insights Primer has generated for your search.

After you run a search, you’ll find the Document page located between Themes and Locations sections:

The Document page contains filtering options that enable you to segment table results by different sources, type of publication, location, and sentiment so you can uncover changes in the narrative across different input criteria.

In the results table, we’ll assign a ‘Relevance’ score to a Document. Similar to the ‘Significance’ score for events, this shows how relevant, or closely related, a Document is to your query. The number in the ‘Duplicate Docs’ column in the Document Page represents the number of duplicates of each document occurring in the original dataset. You can even filter the documents of a query down to the continent and country level to better understand the narrative in locations that matter to you!

You can search also within the Documents for keywords to find related items in the column results. Combine the keyword search with the sort by Date function to quickly identify trends across articles over time.

Lastly, you'll be able to Download this data to share or incorporate into your own data with the download button on the right side above the results. You will also have a direct link to the associated Event from the representative document, so you can immediately zoom out and view a wider range of influencing factors, entities, and relationships to that document.

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