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Web Dashboard

Palantir’s Web Dashboard provides customizable, real-time analytics of an organization’s entire data universe — all from within your web browser. Instantly putting vital information at the hands of leadership, the Web Dashboard leverages the power of the Palantir platform and enables leadership to make decisions without having to run searches. In use today by some [...]

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Object Explorer

Object Explorer powers top-down “haystack to needle” analysis on vast quantities of data to find even the unknown unknowns. Knowing what you’re looking for when you start is no longer a requirement; exploring interactively until you “know it when you see it” is no longer a dream. Object Explorer is a cloud technology – infinitely [...]

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Histogram

The Histogram Helper, available in the Browser, Graph, Map, and Data Sources applications, provides an aggregate view of currently selected objects by binning them according to various criteria such as shared properties and shared link types. This is a very powerful method for spotting trends within the objects you have selected, then filtering those objects [...]

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Time Wheel

The Time Wheel gives you a unique view into temporal patterns within your data. The time wheel plots events in polar coordinates, with one time scale along the radius and a second, concurrent time scale along the angular coordinate. By overlaying time scales, you can view the same time “slices” stacked on top of one [...]

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Map Layers

The Map Layers application is a powerful and versatile tool for annotating the Map, giving you the power to import, overlay, and analyze external map data. Map layers can be derived from Google Earth KMZ files, GPS exchange files, or Shapefiles. You can stack multiple layers and toggle them on and off. Layers can be [...]

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Hierarchy

The Hierarchy Helper rearranges the layout of nodes on the Graph into levels, making it much easier to understand the organizational nature of a group of entities. This is particularly useful when visualizing organizations, companies, gangs, or any group with a hierarchical command structure, as well as for preparing diagrams for presentations. The helper can [...]

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Heatmap

The Heatmap helper, specific to the Map application, lets you overlay a heatmap representing a density you have configured, directly onto the Map. One very simple example would be viewing the population density in a neighborhood based on number of residents. You can also use the Heatmap helper to configure more complex densities based on [...]

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Flows

The Flows Helper, specific to the Graph application, allows you to see and analyze the flow of quantities (such as payments or calls) along directional links between the nodes on the graph. You can create custom types of flows, choose how they are represented visually on the graph, and filter the visible flows by quantity. [...]

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Map

The Map application displays geotagged objects from your investigation on a map of the earth, which can then be manipulated, layered, and configured to analyze and present your data geographically. You may either move objects already contained in your investigation onto the map, or use the map itself to perform geographical searches of your data [...]

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