A look at the Constitution with Hyperspeed
One of the greatest gifts of online technology has been accessibility. One of the core tenants of the information age is that enough people can be exposed to the information for it to be real. Whether this is for good or bad, it is something information cannot escape from.
At Hyperspeed, we are trying to understand how people consume digital content so that we can dramatically improve it. Our key focus is to help people spend less time trying to comprehend the information they seek, and make the time that they do spend more meaningful. We are trying to do this by giving people superpowers. These superpowers will enable people to research, read, or extract information faster than ever before.
Today, we spent some time diving through a 233 year old document and put our work to the test. How quickly could we sift through the United States Constitution and find answers to a few of our questions.
We started with a race to the bottom.
This is a decent sized document. Not extremely lengthy but enough to get a bit frustrated. This document on average takes anywhere from 10–25 minutes to read, depending on your reading level. That is the amount of time to just read it, comprehension can be a completely different story.
Let’s see how Hyperspeed helps you understand who can be president, both from the time it takes to find this answer and time it takes to understand.
With Hyperspeed, a reader is able to speak with the website. By asking a question (Who can be president?), a reader prompts Hyperspeed to use Natural Language Processing to contextualize the question and return the most relevant information on the page. In a matter of seconds, Hyperspeed pointed me to the most relevant information while providing additional context that increased my ability to holistically comprehend the information.
Let’s try another one. This time, we want to learn about the House of Representatives!
At Hyperspeed, we understand speed comes in many different forms. We are paying attention to our implementation to ensure that our system is able to run our NLP processes while responding to questions very quickly. The human behavior is just as important, so we focused on designing an experience that enables people to seamlessly thread questions and comprehension. Without needing to take your hands off the keyboard, a person could cut through the this document in a fraction of the time, close out Hyperspeed by pressing “escape,” and move on with their day.
Take a look at some threading in this short video!
