Introduction to Hi-Res Analytics
Hi-Res Analytics dashboards enable you to create visual representations of your data using the latest in powerful web technologies. This introduction defines the fundamental concepts of working with dashboards and provides an overview of the Hi-Res Analytics user interface.
To fully leverage the advanced capabilities of Hi-Res Analytics, it helps to have skills working with Excel functions and formulas, SPARQL, and JavaScript and HTML. You can create dashboards without these skills but may not be able to take advantage of all functions.
Concepts and Vocabulary
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Dashboards are containers for the elements that enable you to visualize, analyze, and share your data. Data is viewed through lenses, such as tables and charts, that format the data for display. You can also apply filters to the data to refine the results. There are two types of dashboards that you can create: a Graphmart Dashboard that offers several choices of lens and filter types, and a Network Navigator Dashboard, which is an interactive graph visualization tool for exploring the relationships in a graph. |
| Data Layer | Since graphmarts typically have multiple data layers, users can include or exclude the data from certain layers when creating or viewing dashboards. |
| Lens | Lenses are the structures that display your data. You must have at least one lens in a dashboard. You can reuse existing lenses or create new ones. For more information, see Creating a Lens. |
| Filter | Filters narrow and further define the data to display. Dashboard-level filters apply globally to all lenses in a dashboard. Lens-level filters apply only to a specific lens and are not displayed on the lens. They are shown only in the lens designer. For more information, see Working with Filters. |
| Property | A property is a predicate that contains the instance data to display. The data type of a property determines the functional aspects within a dashboard. For example, certain filters act only on dates or numbers. |
| Path | Paths are relationships. They are transitional elements that allow you to connect data across classes. |
| Functions and formulas | Functions and formulas can be applied to properties to modify the data that is presented. Available functions depend on the property’s data type. For more information, see Calculating Values in Lenses and Filters. |
Application Overview
This section gives an overview of the user interface. The images below show an administrator view. Some options are not available to users with lower permission levels.
Main Toolbar
The toolbar at the top of the screen provides the following options:
- Dashboard: This menu includes options to save or reset the dashboard and create a new dashboard or open an existing one. This menu also provides access to the permission settings, properties, and the option to delete the dashboard.
- Lenses: This menu includes options to create a new lens or open an existing one.
- Filters: This menu includes options to create a new filter, clear selected filters, and show all active filters.
- Refresh: This menu includes an Automatic option that controls whether the dashboard is automatically updated when the underlying graphmart data changes. In addition, the menu includes a Show Update Controls option that, when enabled, adds pause icons to lenses and filters so that users can pause the refresh of individual components and then manually update them when desired.
- Designer: This menu opens the dashboard designer, which includes settings that control dashboard layout and design as well as the update method to use for the overall dashboard.
- Help: This menu includes options to open the Progress window as well as the Query Manager and the documentation.
- User: This menu presents the option to log out of the application.
Dashboard Tabs
The dashboard tabs under the main toolbar display the open dashboards and enable you to navigate between dashboards. When you change a dashboard, an asterisk appears on the dashboard tab. Save the dashboard to preserve the changes.
Filters Panel
The left panel (shown below) contains the dashboard filters. Each of the panels are described below.
Manage Lenses
Clicking Manage Lenses opens the Manage Lenses dialog box, which enables you to show and hide the items in the panel. For example:
Clearing an ON checkbox hides that item in the panel. You can select a checkbox to show an item or click Restore Defaults to show all items.
When the dashboard layout is a Vertical List Container, there is also a Manage Lenses button available for showing and hiding lenses. For example:
Graphmart
The Graphmart panel displays the selected graphmart for the dashboard:
Data Types
The Data Types panel displays the selected data type from the graphmart.
Data Layers
The Data Layers panel displays the layers in the graphmart.
Filters
By default, filters that you create appear in the left column of the dashboard.
Object Toolbar and Tabs
The object toolbar and tabs enable you to manage the lenses and filters in the selected dashboard. The tabs display the open lenses, and the toolbar enables you work with the lens configuration.
