9/23/25

Getting Started - Running a Pathway

0:01 This will be, I think the final getting started video where we actually run the pathway, the most exciting part of this whole process. 0:07 So the pathways down here, uh, hit the pathway button, haven't run one yet in this instance, real exciting. Now, I think I only have one connector on Pathways, which is still me. 0:35 But let's see if I find a route to David Mills, request the batch. That can take a while if there are a lot of tags, so sometimes you might see it spin, don't freak out. 0:46 It's looking for stuff. On this page, it gives me an ID, gives me who I'm looking for from where, and tag collisions will give me a real quick glimpse into whether I found anything or not. 0:58 interesting tags, I thought they would be some. There's not enough data in here for this to really work yet. Interesting tags will be, or is, any tag that shows up less than 10 times in the total database. 1:15 So the whole sort of tag strategy algorithm that we've got is what we call the least common denominator, which is Surface tags that show up the least amount of times. 1:26 So the tag America is going to show up everywhere constantly all the time. It's a totally useless tag. It's a big country. 1:34 Just because you and I have America as a tag in common doesn't mean we know each other. So we push, we do, we have several different methods to get rid of that tag. 1:44 A tag like David Mills, which is a name, is going to be far less common and therefore more interesting. So I'm going to click in, oh, there's a date that it was completed, and then this thing is static. 1:54 So if I go out and I snip more for myself or for David Mills, I would want to rerun it to get the new data to present within the pathway. 2:03 Okay, so here's the pathway. Here it shows your connectors, in this case, just me. If it finds any first degree connections from person to person, it'll show up here. 2:13 A second degree connection would be a second degree connection from person to person to person. A mutual affiliation is where both people have an affiliation to an organization. 2:24 So there are other ways to connect than just through people that might be through an organization. Here are interesting common tags and interesting relay tags. 2:36 So we'll get to that in a second. But I do have one interesting common tag, so that's cool. And as I scroll down, then I get into more and more tags. 2:44 In this case, I've got just one connector, just one tag. Now these can get quite large and you can see a bunch and a bunch of tags. 2:51 On the right is the tag noise tolerance. It looks like I currently have a bug where this should say one because David Mills has occurred one time. 3:02 This number is how many total times we've seen that tag in the database. Again, that's that least common denominator thing. 3:09 So as this database builds and builds, America will have thousands of occurrences. David Mills will have zero and are most used version of pathways. 3:18 We have over a million tags at this point, you know, I think like Texas is in there 30,000 times. And so it's totally useless tag. 3:27 We use the tag noise tolerance meter to get rid of any tags at a certain number. So with my current issue, let's see if a refresh will give me a number here sometimes it's just yeah, okay Now I got a bug. 3:39 It's fine We're in beta everybody calm down This will let me kill tags that show up too many times and I can control that In this case, it's not really working. 3:51 That's fine. You guys get the point. I hope you get the point Okay, so here I can see my connector has a common tag tags always show up in this gray It gets kind of confusing when a tag is a name and you see it against other names So, we've done what we can to make sure that it always shows up in gray 4:06 . I can think not a name as the tag, however, it's an interesting tag because it's a name. In this case, it's David Mills' name. 4:14 So that's always a winner. That means somewhere in my references, the tag David Mills came up. And obviously for David Mills, it says manually added. 4:27 The system added automatically because it always adds your name or the name of the person. as the first tag to the person. 4:35 So this is not a tag that was snipped on a web graph anywhere. This is a tag that exists because David Mills exists as a person in the system. 4:43 If I want to retrace my steps, I can open the web graph. I can see what's going on here. Oh, look, there's me. 4:51 And who is it, David Mills? There's David Mills. Yeah, these guys probably know each other cool. That validates that. If I click this, and I get a 404, or I don't see David Mills' name on there, it's probably because the actual website changed, and I can always click this reference and see the original 5:08 text here that was snipped. And a Control-F works on this page to get me to whatever I'm looking for. So you can always kind of retrace your steps to figure out what's going on. 5:21 If I want to, so I found something. I found a connection between Ben Molten-David Mills, that's cool. What I can do here is right-click and I can do some stuff with this right-click. 5:31 I can promote David Mills to a person, but he already exists as a person, so I can't do that. We use the word promote because the tag is sort of the lowest level of likelihood that there's a connection. 5:43 I can promote a tag into an organization or into a person and then that will allow me to make connections. 5:49 So in this case, I can connect David Mills to David Mills. I would make any sense. I'll connect you to Ben Mulch. 5:56 Here I can add a note of why I think there's a connection here. I can add a confidence interval. I'm 100% sure because I am Ben Mulch and I do know David Mills add a connection. 6:07 I will have to rerun this and it will show up. It should show up here as a first degree, which I'll do here in a moment. 6:16 I'm going to cover comment tags relay tags URL collisions. A common tag is where one of my connectors has a one-to-one common occurrence tag with my target. 6:30 A relay tag, oh, I don't have any here, that makes this a little tough. A relay tag, I'm going to cover that in a different video. 6:39 Just know if you find interesting relay tags, click on them. Just because the relay tags doesn't mean they're any less valuable than common tags, the option can be just as valuable. 6:47 In our URL collision is where I actually snipped the same website for my target and for one of my connectors. 6:54 That's usually a pretty good sign that these people know each other. So we surface that. Let me rerun this. There's my connection now. 7:02 So whoever revisits this pathway would see instantly at the top of the page. Oh, hey look. Ben knows David Mills. 7:08 I'll just follow that path. Boom. And then we have a warm lead. So that's a real fast rundown of the pathway. 7:16 I'll stop there. Thanks.

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