The document discusses how intelligent data analysis can help improve public security. It describes a Knowledge and Expertise Centre for Intelligent Data Analysis (Kecida) that uses methods like text mining, data mining, and social network analysis to automatically analyze open source information and discover new relationships that can help recognize security risks earlier. It provides examples of how these techniques can be used to extract entities from text, visualize them as networks, and investigate activities like money laundering. The document concludes that intelligent data analysis can improve security through earlier risk recognition, but good data quality is needed so relationships aren't lost.