Fundamental Research Lab’s portal NEST has advanced tools that serve to search and visualize direct and latent relations between people, groups, events, projects, places, institutions and fields of art and culture. These relations are presented and visualized by labeled multi-graphs. Therefore we have different types of links, what permits to build hierarchies and semantics.

Central to NEST is its extensible model of data: Everything in its system is either an entity or a link — a thing or a relationship. This allows the system to grow in any direction, and accommodate as-yet unimagined institutions, organizations, or threats. NEST is a toolkit to explore data, track events, find patterns, and build risk profiles, all in an effort to encourage and motivate action. We like to think of it as a Citizen’s Intelligence Agency, giving people similar tools and technologies to those held by their government.

Genesis of NEST: Counterterrorism programs from Los Alamos and The DARPA program like TIA. TIAa prototype system to provide tools to better detect, classify, and identify potential foreign terrorists with the goal to increase the probability that authorized agencies of the United States could preempt adverse actions. It will link items relating potential terrorist groups or scenarios, and learn patterns of different groups or scenarios to identify new organizations or emerging threats. Analyzing Entities is the ability to search, identify, match, and research entities across aliases and other obfuscating events and tactics.