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.

X-zooming feature is designed for walking through a hierarchy of numeric or categorical data. It excludes the data that are outside the zoomed area of the graph.

• When you use this feature, 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 all graphs of exploratory nature, to a large number of plots displaying data points, to column and bar graphs, to histograms, and to graphs, using categorical data such as mosaic, spine plots, Pareto or other categorical histograms, to sequence alignment diagrams, to stereographic scatter plots, etc. tc.
• X-zooming can be performed:
• Using the X-zoom tool and dragging around the region of data of interest
• Selecting the region of data of interest and using the contextual menu command

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.