132. A method to enable improved analysis and use of sociological data, the method comprising: identifying causal relationships between a plurality of documents; identifying a plurality of characteristics of a communication, including a modality used, actors involved, and proximate events of relevance; enabling a user to query based on all of the characteristics available; and enabling a user in a query window to construct a query and save the query for reuse.
132. A method to enable improved analysis and use of sociological data, the method comprising: identifying causal relationships between a plurality of documents; identifying a plurality of characteristics of a communication, including a modality used, actors involved, and proximate events of relevance; enabling a user to query based on all of the characteristics available; and enabling a user in a query window to construct a query and save the query for reuse. 133. The method of claim 132 , further comprising: providing fully-customizable controls that are part of a query specification, which may be customized through the query window itself.