Aabel Data Exploration Tools

Data exploration in Aabel goes beyond data brushing. Real time, two-way interaction between visualization and data sources is only a start. A unique zooming tool called X-zoom (X for exclude allows walking through hierarchies of numeric or categorical data rapidly, to discover patterns and information that are otherwise masked.

Data brushing can be used for highlighting data interrelationships. It can be used as the first step for further data filtering, walking through hierarchies of numeric or categorical data, etc. By selecting data on one chart, the same data used by other charts and the corresponding worksheet rows will be highlighted. You can similarly chart-select worksheet rows to highlight the corresponding data on charts.

The X-zoom tool excludes data that are outside the zoomed area of the chart. The zoomed area of the chart will be the selected area.

• When you use this tool, the exclusion of the data is not a visual effect. These data are excluded from the visualization and statistics pipeline, and hence are excluded from any further analysis (e.g. they will not be included in regression calculations).
• X-zooming can be applied to a large number of charts displaying data points, to column and bar charts, histograms, and to charts using categorical data such as mosaic, spline plots, Pareto or other categorical histograms, etc.
• X-zooming allows exploring the numeric or categorical data by successive X-zooming to walk through hierarchies of data.

If you have mapped data patterns that you want to explore further, you can use the viewer filtering tools to extract subsets of data using multidimensional filter criteria. For more information regarding the data filtering capabilities of Aabel, visit Data Filtering Tools in Aabel.