Introduction to Explore

Introduction

The Explore page allows you to create widgets to analyze and visualize your data.

A widget is an individual element on a dashboard. Use Explore to create table and chart (visualization) widgets based on your data. You can also add image, video, and text widgets to your dashboard.

In Explore, you create and edit widgets in a view. Only views that are added to a dashboard as a widget are saved.

To start using Explore, load data from datastreams into Explore & Present.

Prerequisites

Before you complete the procedure in this guide, perform all of the following actions:

Only data loaded into Explore & Present is available in the Explore page.

Creating widgets in Explore

In Explore, you create table and visualization widgets by following three steps. The guides listed below contain detailed instructions for creating a table widget, and then a visualization based on this table.

  1. Selecting data to add to a widget

    Select data for the widget from the data loaded into Explore & Present. A data table is automatically created based on your selection.

  2. Configuring data tables

    Configure how selected data is displayed in the data table. At this stage, you can add the data table to a dashboard as a table widget.

  3. Creating visualization widgets

    Create a visualization based on the data table you have configured. After creating a visualization, add it to a dashboard.

Quick guide to creating widgets

Alternatively, this quick guide lists all the steps needed to create a table and visualization in Explore, without any additional information.

  1. Go to the Explore page.

  2. Next to the View tabs at the top of the page, click Create new view.

  3. From the Dimensions & Metrics list on the left, select the dimensions that you want to add to your widget.

  4. From the Dimensions & Metrics list on the left, select the metrics that you want to add to your widget.

  1. To create a visualization, select the data set that you want to visualize. To do this, follow these steps:

    1. In the data table, click on a metric value to see the different data sets you can visualize for this metric.

    2. In the pop-up Visualize menu, click a data set to add it to your visualization. The data included in each data set is highlighted when you hover over each option.

As a result, you see a table containing your data and, if you have selected a data set, a visualization containing the data in the selected data set. You can now add the data table and/or visualization to a dashboard.