Basic Concepts

This section describes the most important terms and concepts in Data Perspective Studio, filed by category.

This page discusses:

See Also
Main Workflow
Managing Screens
Defining and Managing Data Queries
Configuring Visualizations
Configuring Data Interactions with Variables
Translating Data Experiences

Project Terms

Data Perspective
The core object of the Data Perspective Studio. A data perspective may be more or less complex depending on its content. It is organized in screens.
Screen
Every screen is composed of visualizations arranged by a specific layout.
Visualization
A visualization refers to a visual component. It may display data (chart, image, text), or organize other visualization through column layouts.
Variable
Context variables are a set of special values that may store values that are defined by the user when using an app. For example, text from a text search input, refine from active filter, etc.

Use context variables to:

  • Make the application dynamic.
  • Modify cross visualizations at once, as the same visualizations may share the same context variables as parameters.

Chart Terms

Chart

Use this type of widget to display numerical data.

The chart configuration includes parameters related to:

  • A service fetching numerical values.
  • The display of the chart. For example, the type of chart, colors, etc.
Dimension
Descriptions or characteristics of metric data that can be viewed, broken down, and compared in a report. It corresponds to the X axis of a chart.
Measure
Quantitative information about business items, such as task workload, issue resolution time and number of change actions linked to change order.

Measures are the foundation of reports, and help you view and understand data relationships. They let you perform side-by-side comparisons of different data sets about your website.

Measures are aggregated (average, min, max, etc.) along dimensions to produce the measures to display. A single value is computed for a set of documents that have the same dimension value.

Data Terms

Data Query
An API endpoint used to process a request to one or more Semantic Graph Index data sources. You use Data Queries and their related ResultSet as input in your visualizations.
Source
Data Perspective Studio relies natively on the Semantic Graph Index (SGI) configuration and retrieves 3DSpace data.
Schema
A set of data model classes. Equivalent to an SQL Database.
Class
A set of properties. Equivalent to an SQL Table.

Other Terms

Translation
A set of key/ values that you can define to localize your visualization labels in several supported languages.
6W Vocabulary
A 6W vocabulary resource is a mapping between a 6W tag and a field coming from a data query. You can map a same resource to different fields, but you can map one field only to a 6W tag.