+ Explore Cronologies

Explore
your data.

See it from every angle. Map meaning, search across media, build connections, and move between views without losing useful context.

CRONOLOGIES / EXPLORELIVE UNIVERSE
Cronologies showing a semantic map beside the selected node and its connectionsMEANING → DISTANCENODES + LINKS

01 Semantic maps

Meaning becomes
distance.

Embeddings are computed right in your browser and projected into 1D, 2D, or 3D layouts. Text, images, and video scenes share one space, so meaning lines up across media—related records drift together and outliers stand apart. What was a table becomes terrain.

  • SEM
    Map by concept

    Use meaning as spatial distance, not only as labels or columns.

  • MAP
    Project many dimensions

    Use UMAP and layout controls to turn complex similarity into navigable space.

  • MM
    Move across media

    Compare meaning carried by text, imagery, video scenes, and other embedded material.

How maps work
SIMILARITY FIELDLAYOUT / LINKS
A wireframe globe layout with the layout menu open, showing Nodes, UMAP, and Links modes
0.94 Nearby concepts
0.18 Outlier cluster

02 Viewpoints & ontology

The same universe,
seen differently.

Lay the same universe out however the question demands. Place nodes by a coordinate—a property value or a UMAP-reduced embedding—or let a force-directed layout arrange them by their connections. Map any field to position, size, or color.

  • POS
    Place by value

    Position and color nodes by a property value or a UMAP-reduced embedding coordinate, in 1D, 2D, or 3D.

  • FDL
    Lay out by force

    Switch to a force-directed graph so connected nodes pull together and clusters emerge from structure, not coordinates.

  • EDG
    Draw the edges

    Add typed connections by hand between people, concepts, places, and media—and watch the layout rearrange.

  • ONT
    Build an ontology

    Create dimensions, name values, and define parent-child conceptual hierarchies.

Edges & ontology
VIEW COMPOSER6 MODES
Cronologies view picker with several ways to visualize a universe
Choose the form of the map
Cronologies controls for mapping data dimensions to visual axes
Choose what each dimension means

03 Many views, one universe

Orbit it. Walk it.
Play it through time.

Move between globes, grids, timelines, and 3D graphs without leaving your data. Drop to first person and walk the surface, or press play and watch your universe evolve over time.

  • VUE
    Switch forms

    Move between globe, timeline, graph, similarity, first-person, and inverted views.

  • FPV
    Enter the field

    Use first-person and Tree of Knowledge views to experience structure from within.

  • TIM
    Play time forward

    Use temporal controls to watch records appear, cluster, and change.

All the views

05 Media understanding

Read what's
inside the media.

Before anything is mapped, your content is broken into meaningful pieces: entities pulled from text, long documents split into passages, and video cut into scenes. Each piece is embedded on its own, so you can search into the middle of a document or the exact moment in a clip.

  • NER
    Recognize entities

    Pull people, places, organizations, and concepts out of documents automatically.

  • SEG
    Segment long text

    Split documents into passages so each idea is embedded and found on its own.

  • SCN
    Cut video into scenes

    Detect scene changes and turn each shot into its own searchable moment.

  • VID
    Search inside video

    Jump straight to the scene that matches a phrase or an example image.

Import & parsing
MEDIA PARSERENTITIES / SCENES
Cronologies showing extracted passages connected to characters in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
TEXT Passages become searchable references
A video scene opened inside Cronologies
VIDEO Matches open at the relevant scene

06 Create a universe

From mixed data
to explorable worlds.

Import mixed source material, split it into meaningful pieces, embed those pieces, extract the people, places, objects, and concepts they refer to, then move through the resulting graph as links or semantic neighborhoods.

CREATE A UNIVERSE / CLIENT SIDEREADY
  1. 01IMPORT

    Start with mixed files.

    Tables, PDFs, text, images, and videos enter as source material.

  2. 02SEGMENT

    Highlight the meaningful parts.

    Rows, chapters, passages, frames, and scenes are separated into chunks.

  3. 03EMBED

    Turn chunks into observation nodes.

    Each chunk receives an embedding and becomes a point in a shared graph.

  4. 04REFERENTS

    Extract the things being referenced.

    Columns, people, places, objects, dates, and concepts become entity nodes.

  5. 05VIEWS

    Explore the same graph in two ways.

    Links form force-directed hubs; embeddings form UMAP similarity islands.

07 Private by design

Your data
stays yours.

Import CSV, XLSX, JSON, PDF, and media files. Most parsing, entity extraction, and embedding happen locally in your browser. Large CSVs can use account-based cloud processing when server processing is enabled.

  • IMP
    Bring many sources

    Start from spreadsheets, structured files, documents, images, audio, or video.

  • LOC
    Local by default

    Build and refine most universes in browser storage; cloud-processed datasets remain tied to your account.

  • EXP
    Carry it forward

    Export bundles that preserve media, edits, routes, and structure.

Import & export
CREATE A UNIVERSECLIENT SIDE
The Create a Universe dialog listing supported file types: spreadsheets, documents, images, and video
LOCAL ONLY READY

+ More ways to work

Bring the whole
universe with you.

Explore deeply, add what you learn, and carry the result into the next investigation.

Rich media

Inspect images, audio, video, and text beside the knowledge they describe.

Connected navigation

Travel from a selected node to the people, ideas, places, and media around it.

Collections

Gather significant nodes into working sets without losing their context.

Browser editing

Refine metadata, relationships, dimensions, and ontology as you learn.

Compare selections

Hold several nodes side by side to weigh their fields, media, and neighbors at once.

Saved routes

Record a path through knowledge and replay the sequence for someone else.

Begin anywhere

The next connection
is already there.

You only need a different way to see it.