Settings lets you personalize how you interact with Virtualitics Explore.
To access Settings in Virtualitics Explore, click on the Settings icon ( ) in the top right toolbar.
Available Settings
Settings allows you to customize your experience by adjusting the following preferences:
General | Set specific options and parameters for History, Legend, Statistics, Smart Mapping, Insights, and Spreadsheet View; reset all settings to default |
Account | Manage your account online; sign out |
Plot | Change the axis and default plot options |
Maps | Select configurations for 2D maps and 3D globes |
Appearance | Select a theme, background color, plot colors, and grid box colors |
Data Sources | Adjust query settings and configure remote database connections |
API | Configure Python API and Virtualitics Predict connection |
Annotations | Modify visual settings for plot annotations |
About | Locate version information and third-party licenses |
Settings Tabs
You can find more details for each Settings tab below.
General
- Number Format: Choose the maximum number of decimal places to display. Also choose whether to show the thousands-place delimiter.
- Missing Values: Adjust the Missing Values Warning Threshold and whether to show Missing Values on Color, Shape, and/or Group By.
The missing value warning threshold (default: 50%) will determine how many missing values a column can have before its feature type symbol becomes red, indicating that it is a sparse feature. This can be helpful for quickly dropping all sparse features when running the analytics tools in the software. - History: The default maximum for number of history entries is 50.
- Legend Interaction: When using the Legend Panel, Click to Isolate will isolate your selected category and hide all others, while Click to Hide will hide the selected category and show all others.
- Statistics Sorting: Statistics Sorting gives you the option to sort histograms in the Statistics Panel by Alphabetical order of the bins or by Frequency of the bins.
- Automatically Refresh Insights: Choose to disable or enable (default) automatic refreshing of Insights whenever information is changed or updated on a Mapping.
- PCA and Threshold Anomaly Detection Method: Choose between Vector Based and Coordinate Based.
- Spreadsheet Settings: Choose to enable Paging and the automatic number of columns per Page in Spreadsheet View.
- Reset Settings: Reset all General settings to default.
Account
- Account Information: View which account you are currently signed in with, the License Type, and a link to manage your account via the Account Portal. You can also choose to Log Out of your account.
Plot
- Axis: Change the auxiliary axis’ location on the plot cube and choose whether to show selection lines and labels when a point is selected.
- Default Plot Options: Choose whether to default to 3D or Point Cloud. Also, choose to show or hide Tick Marks and/or Grid Cube. Here, you can also increase Network Graph Edge Subdivisions, which allows you to adjust Edge Curve in Network Graph plot settings.
- Reset Settings: Reset all Plot settings to default.
Maps
- 2D Maps: Choose your Maps Provider and Map Style. You can also set up a Custom Map Provider by inputting the URL into the text field and ensuring you've chosen Custom as the Maps Provider.
- 3D Globe: Choose the Globe Style.
Appearance
- Theme: Choose between Dark and Light.
- Background Color: Choose the background color of the Plot.
- Plot Colors: Choose default Point, Edge, Maps Edge, and Edge Insight colors. Also choose the Edge Alpha (opacity).
- Grid Box Colors: Change the Gridbox, Axis Label, and Tickmark colors.
- Reset Appearance Settings: Reset all Appearance settings to default.
Data Sources
- Input Remote Data connection details to load from remote data sources. For more, see Loading Remote Data into Virtualitics Explore.
API
- Python API Server Configuration: Configure your API port and encryption key. You can also choose whether to launch the API server on login, and manually launch or terminate the server. Please see our API documentation for more details about our API.
- Virtualitics Predict Connection: If your Virtualitics deployment includes access to Virtualitics Predict, you can configure the connection between that module and Virtualitics Explore here.
- Reset API Settings: Reset all API settings to default.
Related Article: Setting up the Virtualitics Python API (pyVIP) with Virtualitics Explore
Annotations
- Annotation Settings: Set Window Transparency and Line Depth levels. Also choose whether or not to show Annotations in a Fixed Position, which will keep them in one place regardless of how a Mapping is adjusted.
- Annotation Colors: Choose the default Line Color, which connects an Annotation to a point, and Maps Line Color, which connects an Annotation to a Point when viewing data on a 2D Map or 3D Globe.
About
- The About section includes Copyright, Version, and Third-Party License information.
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