What's New with Sintelix!

Combine the power of unstructured and structured data analysis.

We are excited to release a new method to ingest structured data directly into Documents and Networks, including support for unstructured data held in structured fields.

You choose between Unstructured and Structured data ingestion when you Add (Ingest) Documents.

See Unstructured or Structured Ingestion and Structured Ingestion.

Load Structured Data supports:

• Excel
• Delimited
• Fixed width
• JSON files, and
• Databases.

Structured Import Wizard Features

The powerful Load Structured Data configuration wizard allows you to control how structured files are ingested, allowing structured fields to become entity nodes without the need for entity extraction.

• transform data using a range of functions, for example, combining fields, formatting dates, etc.

• filter data being imported, either using a fixed value or a parameter value entered at the time of importing

• define the Document content including assigning source fields to properties and tags. Source fields published to the document Content section will also be processed using unstructured ingestion.

• create entity nodes from source fields, and

• create links between nodes.

Network Link Aggregation

You can now create a Network Expansion that will create a new link type that calculates the total count, total strength, or the neighbours in common for selected links between nodes.

See Link Aggregation.

Network Graph Options

Network Graph Visualisations

When viewing Network Graphs, you can use the visualisation options to switch the link value displayed in the circle on the link line between link member count (single line circle) and link strength (double line circle). See Visualisation Options.

Clear Links by Strength

You can clear links with a Link Strength equal or less than the value set. This allows you to examine the strongest links between nodes.

Show Shared Neighbours

When you select two nodes, you have the option to show the shared neighbours of the selected nodes.

Network Graph Shortcut Menu Summary

The updated shortcut menu summary highlights the new icons for identifying actions for multiple selections and links with a Link Direction.

You can now add Geospatial Files into Sintelix. This fantastic feature allows you to capture and display geographic information (routes, areas and images) viewed using the Maps feature. Geospatial data is captured in the Network as geo-data nodes.

Below are examples of using Maps to view Geospatial information to display routes and areas.

You can try importing sample Geospatial files. See Geospatial Files Example.

Supported Formats

• KMZ/KML

• geoJSON

• geoTIFF

• SHP

• GPX.

This map is displaying Geo-nodes with routes (paths):

This map is showing a Geo-node highlighting an area (shape):

Map Settings: Heat Map

You can now change map settings to display:

• Geo-data, for example, see:

  • Maps showing a shape, and

  • Maps showing a path

• Geolocations (shown with traditional map markers)

• Heatmaps (shown to the right).

Base Map Improvements

The base map has been updated and the default zoom has been adjusted.

Custom Map Server

Sintelix 8 supports the configuration of a custom map server.

This configuration can be used to connect to an online raster map server, or to connect to an offline map server supplied by Sintelix.

See Custom Map Server.

Benefit from advancements in Large Language Models and Deep Learning applying multiple layers of processing to extract progressively higher level features from data.

Select Sintelix's enhanced mode Entity Extraction to use the processing power of GPUs to achieve more precise and accurate entity extraction (also called named entity recognition).

Ingestion Configuration

To use enhanced Entity Extraction during ingestion, select the Enhanced Extraction option in the Document Processing configuration.

Languages

Multiple Language Pipelines are supported (license required).

Requirements

Requires the Sintelix GPU Driver and GPU Plugin to be installed with a compatible NVIDIA GPU (8GB+ VRAM recommended). See Install GPU Enhanced Mode.

User Account Menu

The User Account menu has been updated to display "User Account" instead of the user's user name. The user name is now displayed when the User Account menu is displayed.

See My Account.

View Documents: Change Text Scaling

You can change the scale of text displayed in Documents using the new UI Options accessed from the User Account menu.

See Change Document Text Scaling

Forensic analysts collect data from devices and other source for analysis.

Forensic data files tend to be images of hard disks or systems memory that are large and contain large amount of binary data, not suitable for unstructured text analysis.

Sintelix Forensic Analysis Tool

Sintelix has a Forensic Analysis Tool designed to collate metadata and extract files for analysis in Sintelix.

See Forensic Analysis.

More Row Height options

When editing a Table View design, you can adjust the row heights from 1 to 5 lines or unrestricted.

See Edit the Table View.

Default Views and Forms

Sintelix now provides default Table Views and Forms for built-in Entities.

Harvester

Changes to Harvester Query options

We have added some improvements to how you Create a Harvest Query:

• Search Engine Rule Sets are no longer listed in the Rule Sets list. They are only shown in the Search Engines section.

  See Search Engines.

• There is now a checkbox to disable or enable all Rule Sets. This can be useful when you only want to have one or a few Rule Sets enabled. You can disable them all and then enable only the ones you want.

  See Rule Set Options (optional)

• You can now select a checkbox to Harvest All IMGs. When selected, this overrides the Rule Set settings for the elements being harvested. When harvesting, all images will be included within the elements being harvested. Images in elements not being harvested will still be excluded- see Harvest Parameters.

Changes to Processing Harvester Queries

• When images are harvested, any link for the image will be retained.

• Harvester workers are pre-initialised workers to make harvesting perform better.

Harvester Rule Sets

Rule Set Configurations

The list of Rule Set Configurations includes the Priority and Depth columns.

The Rule Sets are listed in Priority order, the same order they would be applied when Harvesting.

- Indicates the Rule Set is for a Search Engine.

See

EES Conditions

You can now include multiple values in condition statements in EES.

See Conditional execution #cond

Sentiment Analysis.

There are new options available when configuring sentiment analysis.

See Sentiment Analysis and Perform Sentiment Analysis.

Examples

There is a new section in the Help, called Examples. Currently there are two examples you can use to try out features of Sintelix:

• Geospatial Files Example

• Structured Import Example

We will include more examples in future releases.

Harvest Documents

The Harvest Documents section has been completely re-written.

We have also included an explanation of Harvest Depth. See Concept: Harvest Depth.

Dictionaries

The Dictionaries configuration section of help has been completely re-written.

Part of this process has also been to add the new Key Concepts section, to help understand some of the terms and concepts referred to in the help.

Help for the Code Editor and Text Graph Analyser have also been updated.