--- title: "Brain Explorer" slug: "brain-explorer" tags: ["brain", "Explorer", "concept", "Search", "analytics"] updated: 2024-10-30T11:10:06Z published: 2024-10-30T11:10:06Z canonical: "docs.revealdata.com/brain-explorer" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.revealdata.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Brain Explorer The **Brain Explorer** is a visual way to show concepts that play a role in the current search results. This empowers the user to see related concepts and make them part of the search criteria, and renders concept search more understandable, accessible, and visual. Brain Explorer is accessed from the Concept Search box under **Analytics**. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-8q92smrf.jpg) In the above example, a concept search for *NASA* has been entered, and weighting has been applied to several of the top concepts by opening the WEIGHT menu next to the term: - Required: *NASA* - High: *space center, johnson space center* - Medium: *federally funded* - Low: *milam, rolla, meeting.exe* - Excluded: *ayatollah, hahahahahaha, sooo funny* Now instead of manually adding concepts to explore Enron’s interest in NASA, I will click **View Brain Explorer**. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-2yq141pm.jpg) The concepts as weighted fall within the dotted “Your Search” circle, with additional concepts listed on the right to augment the search. The Explorer lets you click on a concept node to expand the list of other concepts nodes related to it. Dragging these nodes in and out of the YOUR SEARCH shaded circle lets you modify your search criteria. The **(?)** to the right of the WEIGHT key offers interactive help on how to use the Explorer. Since *NASA* has been weighted as Required, I want to see what concepts are part of this term. I click on *NASA* and see three sub-concepts split out: *Texas medical center, state hwy* and *space center houston*. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-sj90pxm1.jpg) Note that I can continue to split each of these sub-concepts to a further three items with each click. If I click *space center houston* I see three more concept, *rose rivera*, *space program* and *greg grissom*. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-eoeps7s1.jpg) Now I wish to add the concept *space program* to My Search, so I click and drag it into the circle, where it shows up as a Medium weighted term (Green). ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-lijantoi.jpg) The term *meeting.exe* has no value in this review, so I drag it out of My Search; the circle border goes red to indicate something will be removed, and when I release the ball it disappears. I have removed several other items to declutter the Explorer. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-qvs48tqf.jpg) Now I want to change the relationship value of *space program* from Medium to High, so I right click and change the WEIGHT for this term. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-medlm730.jpg) Now in looking at the Additional Concepts list I see the odd and potentially interesting item *satellite*. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-xmni157r.jpg) I click to add this item to Top Concepts (and thus to the Search) as indicated by the bubble help. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-fdpp7145.jpg) At this point I believe I have the start of a good concept search. I review the following steps to make sure I’m not missing anything, or including anything I do not need to start my investigation: 1. Double-click *entity* to collapse the extra sub-concepts. 2. Refresh the top of the *Additional Concepts* list to see if anything of further interest appears. 3. *Add custom concept* at your discretion; the buttons to the right will *Show Concept Weights* and *Show Concept Query*. I will add the additional term *apollo*. 4. Click **FIND CONTENT** to run the Explorer search. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-dyce8a4t.jpg) The **Results** panel will appear to the right of the screen. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-gogn0qn9.jpg) The **Relevancy Distribution** graph can be used to further trim results by grabbing a border and moving it in. ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/brainspace-brain-explorer-image-xeyhzi3z.jpg) From here, the search may be saved, and the results added to a **Notebook** for further analysis. ## Related - [Working with Documents](/working-with-documents.md) - [Concept Search](/concept-search-1.md) - [Analytics Dashboard](/analytics-dashboard.md)