Explore Your Data

See what unexpected insights you can surface by interactively exploring and visualizing your data.

• View Data in a Dashboard
  A dashboard tells you a specific, focused story about data by using a curated set of lenses and widgets. For example, a dashboard can effectively summarize your company’s support cases.
• View Your Data in a Lens
  When you look at data in an exploratory mode, you do so in a lens. A lens has several aspects: it’s how you view data in a dataset, it’s the place where you explore the data graphically, and it’s the basis for building any dashboard.
• Group Your Data into Categories
  Group data to organize it so that the data is displayed in useful categories.
• Change Measures
  Your choice of measure defines your entire visualization and determines the overall scope of your exploration.
• Change the Sort Order
  Choose whether data in your chart visualization is sorted ascending, sorted descending, or unsorted.
• Filter Your Data
  Apply global filters in a dashboard to focus on the subset of data that’s most relevant for your business unit, project, or management team.
• Change the Chart Type
  Switch between chart types to see which visualization options tell the most compelling story for your data.
• Return to the Initial View
  Exploring your data can lead you down many paths. Not all of them are fruitful, and that’s OK. To go back to the dashboard’s original state, or just see those nifty animations again, you can use the reset option to quickly return to the initial view.
• Switch between Apps
  Change apps to explore a different collection of lenses and dashboard.