EmcienScout

An analytics application designed to reveal patterns in streaming text and social media.

EmcienScout replaces the previous product called Gabacus. The change reflects the product’s focus on Security and Law Enforcement.

Product Features

Detect Patterns in Social Media

Social media is too big to be monitored manually – the connections between people, their messages, and their attitudes are too complex to be observed one-message-at-a-time.

EmcienScout’s power is processing a massive set of social media messages, in real-time, to find potential witnesses or suspects based on their own words.

How is pattern detection relevant?
Patterns reveal what people are talking about – and how many people are talking about those topics. By gaining insight into what people are saying, you are able to react to situations as they are developing.

Search by Location

Want to observe a specific geographic region, like a city or neighborhood?

With EmcienScout, you can cast a “net” over an area by simply dropping a pin on a map. Our search engine will find social media messages sent from that location and summarize their results.

What can I do with location search?
There are many ways to use location search, but one example from our clients is monitoring a festival in an urban area.

By casting the “net” for a few city blocks, EmcienScout monitored the social media activity of festival-goers. In our example, law enforcement first learned of a shooting at the event through EmcienScout before anyone called 911, because witnesses were sending social media messages about the incident.

Short-term or Long-term Surveillance

Need to monitor a short-term event such as a rally, protest, or concert? Need long-term surveillance to monitor groups of people or criminal activity over periods of months or years?

EmcienScout can support either form for surveillance. You simply pick when to start recording and how long you want your recording to run. EmcienScout will display the results in a timeline – you simply “scrub” back and forth in time.

Observe Social Media Behavior

Social media has developed its own slang – for example, hashtags, mentions, retweets, likes, follows, etc.

These terms are very valuable when searching social media. They often reveal the strongest connections between people, because they are using the same sland.

EmcienScout automatically finds these social media terms for you. You simply enter in a keyword or location on a map and the pattern detection engine will extract the social media terms for you.

Identify Potential Witnesses or Suspects

EmcienScout finds the connections between people based on their own words.

With EmcienScout you can see who is the most important person in a conversation and who is participating in the conversation. This information is critical when understanding the structure and organization of a group of people.

Monitor Real-time Results

Sometimes you need “trip-wire” monitoring. With EmcienScout, enter in a keyword or select a region on the map, then watch the social media messages display in real-time.

Real-time results allow you to monitor individual social media messages, giving you the option to inspect a stream of messages or view as a summary.

Analyze Sentiment

What is the mood or attitude of a crowd? The first step is finding the relevant people in the swarm of social media. The second step is measuring their attitudes.

EmcienScout reveals the overall sentiment of a search and the specific sentiment around a conversation.

Download Social Media Messages

Social media messages move by so fast, often leaving before you can capture their content for later use. EmcienScout allow you to download the search data for use in a variety of other tools.

The Technology

At the heart of every Emcien analytics application is our patented Pattern Detection Engine. The pattern engine identifies when elements (or tokens) are found together, always apart, “distance” apart, time-dependent, etc. This network of connections is then leveraged by our unique optimizers and user interface to “automatically reveal” the strongest (and weakest) patterns found, by category but also by item. Read more about the technology >>