Data Viewer

Data viewer is a general purpose data visualization tool, it convey complicated information in a powerful but intuitive way to help you explore and explain the data.

Terminology

Data Viewer - a collection of sheets

Sheet - one or more linked plots and controls

Plot - a visualization

Droppable - data that can be dragged and dropped

Target - location to drop a droppable

Node - data results from the analysis pipeline

Saving data

• To save an individual image within the Data Viewer to your machine, click Plot then Export image & select the format, size, and resolution then click Save. Use the plot-specific tools for this.

Export the individual plot that has been selected to your machine

• All visualizations within a sheet in the Data Viewer can be exported as one image (e.g. use one image with all plots for a poster). Use the Export drop-down at the top of the data-viewer for this and select Export image.

Export all visualizations present in the Data viewer session as one image

Navigation

General controls and Adding plots

• Undo

  • Recover backward actions

• Redo

  • Recover forward actions

• Export

  • Export image - download one visualization of all plots in a view to your computer

  • Capture video - capture a video with various formats

• Setup

  • New plot - choose a plot type to add to the sheet, then select data from the analysis pipeline

  • Get data - select data from the analysis pipeline, then choose the plot type

• Save

  • Save - overwrite a saved session

  • Save as - save a new session using a new name

General contorls

Plot controls

Plot controls are context-sensitive and available options will change according to the plot type selected.

• Data

  • Controls to use to export plot level data & get data to modify the plot

• Selection

  • Controls to make and modify selections, classify, and filter

  • Includes pointer, ruler, paint brush, eraser, rectangle, ellipse, lasso and invert selection tools

• Configure

  • Controls to add content and configure plots to modify the plot as needed

  • Includes axes, style, grouping, description and control tools

• Plot

  • Additional plot controls including duplicate, export, and reset legend position

  • Also allows you to reset view, toggle ledgent, toggle axis auto-scale, view full screen and remove

Plot controls

Modify sheets in the Data viewer session

• Click + to add a sheet to the Data viewer session

• Use the drop-down to Rename, Duplicate, or Delete a sheet

Add or modify a sheet in the Data viewer session

Drag and drop

Data can be dragged and dropped to target locations.

• Data that can be dragged

  • Includes legend content, axis titles, criteria used in Select & Filter, and table features.

  • Data nodes, features, and attributes present in the Configure options (e.g., Axes and Style).

  • Setup > New plot and Setup > Get data options used to create plots.

  • Features from an appropriate node in Data > Get data or Setup > Get data (e.g., normalized counts). The Recently used list can be helpful for this if you have already recently used a gene.

  • Data from another plot on the sheet (e.g., an axis title from a violin plot) to a plot or plot control

  • Data from Selection > Select & Filter > Criteria

• Drop targets will change dependent on the action taken.

  • Targets can be options within plot controls (e.g. Selection > Select & Filter > Criteria to generate selections or Configure > Axes).

  • Setup > New plot or Setup > Get data targets include: Top, Right, Bottom, Left providing a location to add a new plot.

  

  Setup targets

  • Plot targets to drop data include: Y axis, Z axis, X axis, Color, Shape, Size, Label, Split, Connect, Highlight, Annotation.

  

  Example of plot targets