contex.tuals
what is the problem? there is a problem
information
cascade – There is just too much data to handle.
technocentric technology – Programs are for computers,
not people.
incompatible formatting – There are so many finicky
file types.
divergent data sources – Files are stored all over
the place.
institutional memory loss – When I leave, I’m
taking the rolodex.
Sound familiar? Any one of these problems would pose significant challenges to the individual researcher, research team, or enterprising organization. All told, these are huge obstacles to personal and collective success. Knowledge workers need tools that adapt to the subtleties of their job.
Our solution
cognitive information design – Do things in
ways that make sense to you.
human-centred design – Build tools tailored to real
people’s workflow.
a unified infosphere – Open one door to find everything
you need.
visual knowledge tools – See knowledge crystallize
and patterns emerge.
multi-modal data objects – Repackage insight for
any purpose
Sound good? A central portal, repository, annotation log, and relational engine for any* data source. A nerve centre and workspace for any project. A scalable, modular, integrated, and interactive toolset for visualizing and mobilizing data. Become your own librarian and archivist by simply reading, taking notes, and jotting down ideas.
It absorbs the information you interact with, analyses the content and uses context to make sense of it as you would.
Our product
knowledge management – A way to store, retrieve,
and mobilize data.
natural language processing – An indexing engine
you can relate to.
information visualization – A tool that lets you
see how you think.
qual qua quant – A bridge between qualitative and
quantitative analysis.
So, are you ready for tuals 0.1 ? We think you’ll love it. Manage your life’s work with a complete record of how, where, when, and what you’ve found. Build a library with your own running commentary. Harvest ideas whose time has come. Share your vision. With the best tuals yet.
tuals currently under development...
conceptuals tools for automatically mapping the semantic networks embedded within texts and creating personalized visualizations of the relations between concepts.
perceptuals tools for automatically deriving perspectives of authors from texts and for eliciting experiential and perspectival data in both individual and groups settings (.
aspectuals tools for automatically identifying and classifying attributes, features, characteristics, and other properties of entities embedded within texts, drawn from the particular perspectives of the authorial voice.
factuals tools for harvesting and evaluating facts from large collections of textual and statistical data.
counterfactuals tools for managing false, misleading, and erroneous facts in large collections of textual and statistical data.
actuals tools for assessing the modal status of data from large collections of textual and statistical data.
virtuals multi-dimensional visualization tools for engaging and interacting with virtual spaces and data collections.
hypertextuals tools for the manangement of networked, world-wide-web data collections.
instinctuals tools for exscavating and highlighting high frequencies in biological and neurological microbehaviours.
habituals tools for exscavating and highlighting high frequencies in linguistic and behavioural microbehaviours.
rituals tools for identifying and highlighting high frequencies in individual and social macrobehaviours and for identifying use factors for identified behaviours.
punctuals tools for managing personal timetables and time-based responsibilities.
preceptuals tools for identifying and visualizing ordered value systems.
spirituals tools for identifying and visualizing alternative value systems.
intellectuals tools for exscavating and highlighting high frequencies in higher function .eneurological microbehaviours.
precedentuals tools for identifying historically validated actions, events, and decisions and establishing justifications for current decisions and decision paths.
eventuals tools for managing risk and forecasting market and other complex event probabilities and outcomes.
precinctuals tools for visually managing geographic information.
percentuals tools for visually managing statistical information.
conflictuals tools for visually mapping and managing conflictual relationships.
consentuals tools for statistically aggegating and democratically mobilizing consensus-based relationships.
contractuals tools for managing obligatory relationships.
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