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Visualizing Data in Mapping View

Getting Started with Mapping View (Desktop)

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Mapping View is Virtualitics Explore Desktop's graphing canvas that allows you to explore multiple dimensions of your data on a variety of visualizations using out-of-the-box AI routines that accelerate speed to insight.

Once you've loaded your data into Virtualitics Explore Desktop and you've examined your data in Spreadsheet View, you'll be greeted with Mapping View.

Mapping View

 

Default View

The default view in Mapping View is a blank canvas, ready for you to set up parameters to review your data or run Virtualitics Explore Desktop's no-code AI routines.

There are three key user elements in Mapping View:

Toolbar

The top toolbar provides access to all key tools, including Spreadsheet View, Features, Mapping, and Legend Panels, no-code AI routines, Natural Language Query Assistant, Plot Type selection, and more.
Panels

Panels are your primary way of interacting with parameters in Mapping View. Clicking on an icon for most tools will open a Panel with additional parameters and functions within.

In Virtualitics Explore Desktop, you can close panels by clicking on the "X" in the top right-hand corner of each panel, and you can drag the panels in different positions on the screen by clicking and holding the top of the panel and moving it.
Plot The plot is where you'll see your data visualized. It can be manipulated in 3D so you can see every facet of your data.

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Upon opening Mapping View for the first time in a project, you'll see these elements with three panels already opened: the Features Panel, Mapping Panel and the Legend Panel.

Features Panel

Once your data is loaded in the application, all the features are listed in the main Features Panel. Here, you can search for specific features and sort to easily retrieve them.

Features Panel

 

Mapping Panel

The Mapping Panel allows you to choose a Plot Type and set specific parameters for how you would like your data to be visualized on the plot.

In Virtualitics Explore Desktop, there is also a Filters section at the bottom of the Mapping Panel. You can drag any features here to filter them down to more specific data if you so choose.

Mapping Panel

 

Legend Panel

The Legend Panel will populate once your plot is created. Depending on the parameters you've set up, you'll be able to see data broken down into key categories, and if you are using Color, Shape, or Group By, see what data is represented by which color, shape, or group. 

Legend Panel

 

Additionally, you can Show Only or Hide specific categories of data on your plot.

To Show Only a category in the Legend Panel:

  1. Click on the Data in the Legend Panel for the category you want to show only.

To Hide specific categories:

  1. Click on the Color indicator next to the data you'd like to hide. That category will be hidden on your plot.
  2. Click on the Color indicator again to re-show the data.

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