DataScope is a web application that allows you to browse and integrate multiple data types and visualize massive amounts of data. Using interactive, linked, dashboards, you can filter the data by attributes you select and view your results in scatterplots, data tables, image grids, and heatmaps.
Using the procedures explained in the DataScope Developer's Guide, you can customize your data, dashboards, and visualizations. This guide explains the way to manipulate the scatterplots, data tables, and image grids you use to visualize your data. This documentation does not yet include information about the heatmap visualization type.
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DataScope includes many filters for adjusting your view of the data. The filters that appear are those that an administrator has customized for your use with DataScope and are not necessarily represented in the screenshots in this guide. Filters are cumulative, which means that you can apply multiple filters to help narrow down your results.
For a more convenient view of the filtering options, click the arrow at the top of the Filtering Attributes panel. This expands the view of the filtering attributes so that they fill the screen.
All of the filtering attributes appear, as well as a Download link, for downloading a spreadsheet of the data after you have (or have not) filtered it.
You must clear each filter individually by clicking in each panel. As you clear a filter, the number of records that meet your filtering criteria likely increases. You may want to note a control value, such as the number of records in the group, to illustrate the change in selected records as you apply filters.
You apply filtering attributes differently depending on their graph type.
To filter attributes using a bar graph, click one or more bars. Selecting a bar may influence the availability of other bars.
In the following graph, none of the stages have been selected and each bar is represented by a different color.
In the following graph, Stage IIA has been selected, making the other bars unavailable for selection.
To filter using a pie chart, click one or more pieces of the pie.
In the following chart, none of the categories have been selected.
In the following chart, the DiseaseFree category has been selected and the other categories are not available.
To filter attributes using a histogram, you have two options:
In the following histogram, no values have been selected yet.
In the following histogram, a range has been selected, which exists between the brackets and appears below the graph.
Data Table: Provides a tabular representation of the provided attributes. Shows 100 records at a time.
Bubble Chart: A bubble chart is a variation of a scatter chart in which the data points are replaced with bubbles, and an additional dimension of the data is represented in the size of the bubbles. Can be used to visualize 4 dimensions.
Image Grid: A list of images that is by default two columns but expands to add more columns when more screen real estate becomes available.
Heatmap: A heatmap is a graphical representation of data where the individual values contained in a matrix are represented by colors.