Generate Insight and New Ideas
using AI and Network Thinking
Enhance your research and ideas with GPT-3 AI, text analysis, and network visualization. Get an overview of any discourse, discover hidden relations and blind spots.
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InfraNodus Features:
AI-Powered Text Network Analysis
InfraNodus represents any text as a network. It then identifies and visualizes the main ideas, relations between them, but also — the blind spots — things that are missing.
Using this structural insight into your text, as well as natural language processing algorithms, it will generate highly relevant GPT-3 AI queries to help you come up with interesting ideas, facts, and research questions.
Usually, this kind of functionality is only available in enterprise-grade tools that are inaccessible to individuals and small businesses. We are on a mission to change that.
InfraNodus Workflow
You can use our text editor, upload your files, or import data from multiple sources.
Reveal the patterns using text network analysis, identify the main topical clusters, top keywords, and trends.
Use the interactive graph to find the most relevant excerpts and discover the relations between the ideas.
Find the blind spots: connect ideas that are not yet linked.
Use OpenAI's GPT-3 and network structure insights to generate text overviews, summary, research questions, facts, and innovative ideas.
Perfect for Personal and Professional Use
InfraNodus can be used for personal knowledge management, text mining, customer review, sentiment analysis, social and discourse network analysis, creative writing, and more.
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Text Mining and Topic Modeling
Harness the power of network science for research and innovation.
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Discourse Overview and Summary
Get an overview, a summary, and the main topics.
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Recommender System for Thinking
How to use InfraNodus to develop a discourse on a certain topic.
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Creative Writing and Brainstorming
AI-assisted writing using network visualization and insight.
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Rhizomatic Mind Mapping with Analytics
Create beautiful mind maps with advanced analytics.
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Knowledge Graph & PKM Analysis
See the connections between your notes and analyze their content.
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Sentiment Analysis of Open Surveys
Find the patterns in your customers' feedback and open answers.
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SEO and Market Research
Learn what people search for but don't yet find.
Case Study
Use Case: Text Mining and Topic Modeling
Problem: What are the main topics inside a discourse?
The current natural language processing solutions are either too simplistic or too technically challenging. They don't take relations into account and provide results that are either too complex or superficial.
Solution: Topic modeling based on text network analysis and visualization.
InfraNodus will represent the text as a network and use powerful graph analysis algorithms to identify and visualize the main keywords, topics, and their relations. You can see patterns, AI-generated topical clusters, and — more importantly — structural gaps. This can be useful for understanding a market, generating a compelling discourse, or during an ideation process, particularly in research and innovation.
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Use Case: SEO and Market Research
Problem: How to find what people search for but do not yet find?
Identify the gap between the current informational demand and supply in order to know which keywords to target in your content and marketing strategy.
Solution: Use InfraNodus to build a graph that shows the difference between the demand and supply.
InfraNodus will import search results for your query, build a graph for it, and overlay it with the related search phrases graph. This way you can see the current picture of informational demand and supply, as well as the main topical clusters within.
You can use this insight to know what keywords to target when creating the content and marketing strategy. You can also look at what's present in the current demand (search queries used) vs. current supply (search results people get) to address those gaps.
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Use Case: Creative Writing and Thinking
Problem: How to write about a certain topic and generate new ideas?
Whether you are brainstorming, doing research or writing you may experience writer's block or simply get stuck for new ideas.
Solution: InfraNodus will represent your text as a network providing a visual overview and helping you find the gaps where the new ideas are hiding. It will then use the AI to help you generate research questions that bridge those gaps.
Our studies have shown that network representation of text encourages one to think in terms of connections, helping you make the new links between the different parts of your text and make your discourse more coherent.
You will also be able to see the structural gaps in your writing: that's where the new ideas our hiding.
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Use Case: Sentiment Analysis of Open Survey Customers Answers
Problem: Need to know what your customers think?
Open survey answers are hard to analyze. Positive / negative is not enough and tag clouds lose out the context.
Solution: Find the patterns in their open survey answers using network graphs.
With InfraNodus your customers' feedback will be visualized as a word graph where the words used in the same answer are connected.
This representation will reveal the patterns and context in your customers' answers, so you will see the main topics that appear in their feedback as well as the hidden relations between them that can't be uncovered by other tools.
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Use Case: Coming Up with Ideas for a New Article
Problem: Need to develop a discourse on a certain topic?
The difficult part is to begin, to gather everything together and to start writing.
Solution: InfraNodus live text visualization and insight recommender system.
Start writing your ideas and InfraNodus will visualize them as a graph. The Insight Recommender system will show the connections between your ideas and reveal the structural gaps — recommending you the interesting questions to ask to develop your discourse further.
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Use Case: Get an Overview of Any Discourse or a Book
Problem: How to read a book in a few minutes?
If you want to study a discourse, a book, or a certain field, you need to read through a lot of data. This may take too much time and resources.
Solution: Visualize the main topics and their relations with InfraNodus
Use the Google search app to import Google or Google Scholar search results for your query to InfraNodus. Or upload a PDF with a book / research article contents, a CSV file export from Zotero with the research paper abstract, or any other corpus of text.
Use the built-in NLP tools, network visualization, graph science, and GPT-3 AI to quickly get an idea of the main topics within, how they are related, and to find the gaps that can help you develop this discourse further or ask the right questions to advance your own research.
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Use Case: Rhizomatic Mind Mapping
Problem: Build a map of your knowledge to understand it better
Standard mind maps start with a central idea, plus it's easy to get lost in them as they grow.
Solution: Using InfraNodus to build rhizomatic mind maps with advanced graph analytics.
With InfraNodus you can just start writing your ideas as the connections betwen them will be visualized automatically.
You can use #hashtags to add the specific nodes and use our advanced graph analytics based on network theory to reveal the most important clusters of ideas and the most influential nodes in your thought.
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Use Case: Analyzing Your Obsidian, RoamResearch, PKM Notes
Problem: Struggling to make sense of your notes
Even if you make the links between them manually, once their number grows it becomes hard to understand what they're about.
Solution: Use InfraNodus to visualize the conenctions between them and find the most relevant ideas.
You can import your RoamResearch, Obsidian, Evernote or any other notes into InfraNodus to visualize the connections between the notes and also the content within them.
Using advanced graph analytics you will get a detailed overview of your ideas and reveal the structural gaps between them — where the potentially interesting new ideas might be hiding.
RoamResearch / Obsidian Tutorial
Evernote Tutorial
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Market Intelligence, News & Trends Monitoring (Live)
InfraNodus can analyze Google search results, popular search queries, Twitter posts, Amazon products and reviews.
Subscribers can seamlessly import their own sources using our apps or CSV tables.
Text analysis dashboard shows the most important topics and the relations between them. The analytics panel reveals latent themes, structural gaps, and advanced text analytics insights.
Research Papers, Notes, and Books
Import data from Google Scholar, scientific databases, research articles, your own texts, Evernote and Obsidian notes.
Subscribers can upload their own files, MD archives, PDFs, books, TXT and CSV files.
You will get a quick understanding of the main topics, the key concepts, as well as the structural gaps in the discourse. Bridging those gaps will generate new ideas (with the help of GPT-3 AI). You will be able to find the most relevant parts of the text using text network graph and read it in a non-linear way.
Mindmap & Knowledge Graph Examples
Mind maps, knowledge graphs, and concept maps made using InfraNodus text-to-graph mindmapping app. Useful for brainstorming and ideation. Use #hashtags or [[wiki-links]] to create your nodes as your write or use our automatic text recognition system.
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How AI-Powered Text Network Analysis Augments Your Research
Text network analysis is the special sauce that makes InfraNodus different from the rest. Most of the AI-based tools can write an ad copy or answer a question, but they lack the capacity to analyze longer texts and to get the most important aspects about the context.
InfraNodus performs network analysis of your text first, to detect the most relevant ideas and the blind spots between them. You can then use the graph to generate new ideas yourself or feed the insights to the AI, so that it helps you generate these ideas for you.
1. Add Any Text or Data: Import or Use a Live Editor
You can use this approach for your research, creative writing, marketing feedback study, SEO purposes, news analysis, etc.
Add any text (speech-to-text available), notes, or import your Gephi graph, Evernote data, Twitter feed, or Google search results snippets.
The text is converted into a graph where the words are the nodes and the co-occurrences are the connections between them, so you can see all your disjointed bits and pieces of data at once, as a big picture.
2. Get a Visual Overview: From Unstructured Text to Structured Data
The network will then be generated from the text or data you added. The most influential words in the graph (nodes with the highest betweenness centrality) are shown bigger, while the words (nodes) that occur more often together are aligned into topical clusters and have distinct colors.
The graph will show you not only the main topics and the most influential terms, but also the relations between them, making it a much better visual summary tool than the traditional tag clouds.
Natural language processing and text analysis algorithms are used to turn your unstructured text into structured data.
3. Generate Insight: Discover Relations and Blind Spots using the Network and AI
InfraNodus will identify the structural gaps in the network: parts of the textual data graph that could be connected but are not (the blind spots).
It will propose the different ways how you can bridge these gaps to produce insight and generate new ideas.
You can also export your data as a CSV file (with the InfraNodus insights) for further analysis or to use as a training data for your neural network applications.
Methodology, Whitepaper, Citations:
To learn more about the algorithms used in InfraNodus and for citations, please, refer to this peer-reviewed paper:Paranyushkin, D (2019). InfraNodus: Generating Insight Using Text Network Analysis, Proceedings of WWW'19 The Web Conference, www.infranodus.com (ACM library, PDF).
If you want to know more about the algorithms used, here is the first paper we published on the subject:
Paranyushkin, D (2011). Identifying the pathways for meaning circulation using text network analysis, Nodus Labs. (Google scholar)
Practical Use Cases
The best way to use InfraNodus is to identify structural gaps in texts or any connected data, so that you know what is missing and how to fulfill it. Some areas of application include:
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Mind Map Generation (live text-to-graph input)
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Scientific Research (generate insight from your writing)
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Search Engine Optimization / SEO (finding the untapped keywords)
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Visual Google Search (a great way to get an overview of any topic)
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Network Analysis (community detection and node ranking algorithms)
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Visual Arts and Music (sculpt your thoughts and play music with graphs)
InfraNodus is Organic Software.
Become a Supporter!
InfraNodus is open-source "organic" software: it is developed without external funds or investors. We do not use any growth additives which may be detrimental to long-term vision because they prioritize unsustainable development practices, totalitarian thinking (winner takes all), and uninspiring use cases.
We develop and maintain this tool and the associated research based on your contributions only. We believe it is a working model for crowdfunded software made by users for users.
You can support our work if you become a subscriber and get access to the cloud version or if you become our patron on Patreon. Enterprise, government, and educational versions are also available.
Pricing Options
InfraNodus and the associated research is supported solely by our subscribers and patrons, that's why we ask for a subscription payment.
We don't accept any investments or government grants, helping us keep this tool affordable, independent, and free from corporate and ideological agendas.
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- free 14-day trial
- Instant Activation
- Cloud Version
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(1Mb for PDFs) - Import 100 Amazon Reviews
- Import 300 Tweets
- Import 40 Google Results
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- Extended Quotas & Apps
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Bigger File Uploads
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- Import 1000 Tweets
- Import 60 Google Results
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- Import 1000 Amazon Reviews
- Import 3000 Tweets
- Import 100 Google Results
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GPT-3 AI Insight Generation
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About InfraNodus: Our Philosophy
Gregory Bateson coined a beautiful term: "ecology of the mind". What is a mind that is ecological? It has the ability to have an overview, but it can also zoom into any idea. It embraces diversity, but it can also obsess over one thing when needed. It can discover the obvious, but it can also reveal the things that are hidden and ponder the gaps that have not yet been bridged. Focused and, yet, adaptive. Rational and poetic.
InfraNodus is a tool that is developed to help you think this way. It is made to promote ecological dynamics and diversity on the cognitive level. InfraNodus visualizes and analyzes ideas as a network, revealing the relations and patterns within them, so you can understand the dynamic complexity of how knowledge evolves and explore the nuances of meaning.
We believe that it is especially important today to make this kind of instrument available to everybody. That's why we develop InfraNodus so that it can be accessible to everyone, solely thanks to our users' monthly contributions and based on their feedback.
We also provide an API to ensure that this way of thinking is available not only to humans, but also to other machines, applications, AI programs, and machine learning algorithms.
If you like our cause, please, sign up for an account and give it a try, support us on Patreon, or simply let us know that it resonates. Your feedback is our fuel.
Dmitry Paranyushkin, the founder
Cognitive Variability: Panarchic Thinking with InfraNodus
InfraNodus is specially designed to promote cognitive variability. Too often people get stuck with a certain idea or a pattern of thinking. InfraNodus can be used as a mind antivirus against obsessive loops — biased ideas, mundane patterns, totalitarian thinking, propaganda, and narrow-mindedness — proposing a kind of thinking that is pan~archic: spanning a range of states and modalities.
Using text network analysis, InfraNodus identifies the structure of the discourse through the measures of network modularity, distribution of influence, and narrative variability. It then uses its algorithms and AI to steer this structure toward a more adaptive and open state.
If the discourse is too biased toward a certain idea, InfraNodus will steer it toward diversification. If the discourse is too dispersed, InfraNodus will steer it toward more focus.
In plain terms, if InfraNodus was a conversational partner (which you can experience with the AI Chat App), it would support a conversation for some time, but then also switch the subject and go on a tangent towards a different topic. After some time, it will bring the conversation back to the central ideas, stay there for a while exploring the nuance, and then shift the subject to a new topic again.
In the technical terms, it works the following way:
1→2 #bias #growth #vector #exponent:
If the discourse is too biased toward a certain group of concepts (stage 1 to 2 on the graph), InfraNodus will highlight the less represented ideas and propose you to explore them and to connect them (50%/50% explore / focus ratio and 50%/50% zoom in / out ratio at the stage 2).
2→3 #focus #saturation #plateau:
This will bring the discourse toward a focused state (stage 2 to 3). Higher connectedness, focus on multiplicities, increasing the scale, zooming out, linking ideas more than exploring (80% to 20%).
3→4 #focus #conservation #intensification:
Now we can start zooming in again, decreasing the scale, connecting ideas within a smaller area, deepening the focus inside the existing structure (stage 3 to 4 on the graph).
4→5 #diversification #assimilation #release:
Once the discourse has become even more "focused" (stage 4 to 5), InfraNodus will also suggest to develop the specificities, zoom in further, go bigger scale, and, thus, reduce (global) focus and increase the proportion of exploration again (to 20%).
5→6 #diversification #redirection #fractalization:
It will then propose to diversify the discourse by zooming out and exploring more clusters, developing each of them further (stage 5-6: moving between locally related ideas and also jumping across the structural gaps in the graph).
6→7 #dispersion #reorganization:
At some point, we shift toward dispersion by giving more weight to the exploration process, rather than focus (state 6-7: dispersion).
7→8 #dispersion #reset:
Once the scale is large enough, we zoom into the small scale again while exploring until we find a new concept we'd like to develop (stage 7-8).
8→1 #bias #genesis:
We then focus on it and develop it further again (stages 8 to 1).
Testimonials
InfraNodus is used by researchers, writers, marketing professionals, corporations, and NGOs — Greenpeace, Procter & Gamble, and others. Here's what some of our supporters have to say:
Technical Support
Check out our support pages, so you can see how to create the new network graphs, how to read and interpret them, how to discover the hidden patterns in your data and share the results of your research.
1. How to Create a New Graph
The most basic way to create a new graph is to use the hashtags. Each hashtag is a node, their co-occurrence is the connection between them. You can also use normal text to build your text graphs automatically. More on Creating the Graphs
2. How to Read and Interpret Network Visualization
Studies have shown that diagrams and especially network representation of data makes you think more of connections in your data. You can identify the main elements as well as the relations between them and — most importantly — discover the gaps in your knowledge using the graphs. More on Reading the Graphs
3. Find the Right Excerpt in Text
Network graphs are great for non-linear reading. Look at the graph, find the part you like, click on the nodes, and you'll see the excerpt of your original data that contains this exact combination. More on Nonlinear Reading
4. How to Import Text and PDF files
You can import and visualize your text files or PDF documents. In order to do that, just upload the file and InfraNodus will do the rest. More on Visualizing PDFs