Exploring Data

Exploring Data

Visualising and navigating your data

Once you are satisfied with the content of your data set, you are ready for the next phase of file preparation following the Visualisation Phase checklist.

 

Managing Views

  • Manipulating views (adding/removing/resizing/flipping dividers/open in window - guide to arranging them)
    • Restricting view availability
    • View Toolbar functionality common to most views (view picker, view tools)

Selecting & Filtering Rows

Selection

  • Preview barometer
  • Brushing
  • Move/keep
  • Selected data subset
  • Deselecting (Deselect button; click in blank)

Filtering

  • Filter devices
  • Barometer
  • Exclusions, move keep => Selection, below
  • Data subsets
  • Queries
  • Halo

Queries & Subsets - Introduces the related concepts of Named Queries and defined data subsets. The Main Toolbar Named Queries menu options are covered, as is the Data Subsets selector that appears on most View Toolbars immediately to the right of the view name for all views.

Defining Aggregations

Aggregation -

  • Per-view barometer
  • Selection => Selection sub-topic
  • View titles => configuring your file sub-topic

Guide to Views

  • Table
  • Bar
  • Graph
    • Time series + aggregation guide
  • Map
    • Installing/browsing maps
    • Coordinates
    • Postcode/BNG issues
    • Map colour effects; layers
    • Images as maps
    • Connecting markers
  • DP
    • Configuring, etc.
    • Exporting PPT, PDF etc.
    • Uploading to my.visokio.com
  • etc.
  • Details
  • Using drop-downs (different types, searching, filtering, ctrl-click etc.)