ManiVault Studio leverages its flexible and extendible plugin architecture to offer various viewing modalities. With these modalities, an advanced visual analytics application can be built. A few examples of the view plugins that are shipped with ManiVault Studio:

• Scatterplot
  High-performance scatterplot, capable of handling millions of data points.
• Image viewer
  Viewer plugin for working with high-dimensional images
• Dimensions viewer
  Viewer for inspecting high dimensional data dimensions

To view data, follow these steps:

1. Create the data view
   There are three ways to create a new data view.
2. Load data in the view
   The data hierarchy plugin plays a pivotal role in viewing data. Use this plugin to load data in the view.

Create the data view

Use these approaches to create a data view plugin:

Create view from the main menu

• Go to Main menu
• View > View plugin of choice

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Create relative to an existing view

A view plugin can also be created and positioned relative to an existing view:

• Click the plus sign next to an existing view plugin
• Choose where to place the new view (Left, Right, Above, Beneath or Tabbed)
• Select View plugin of choice

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Create view from the data hierarchy plugin

A view plugin can also be created directly from the data hierarchy plugin. Below is an example. For detailed instructions, see the section below.

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Load data in the view

Use the data hierarchy plugin to:

View a single dataset

• Select a single dataset
• Right-click to show the context menu
• Click on View, this will show all compatible view plugins (this menu is not available when there are no compatible view plugins)
• Click the view plugin of choice

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View multiple datasets

• Select multiple datasets (hold CTRL to add a dataset and SHIFT to select a range of datasets)
• Right-click to show the context menu
• Click on View, this will show all compatible view plugins (this menu is not available when there are no compatible view plugins)
• Click the view plugin of choice

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View dataset with drag and drop

The data hierarchy plugin supports drag-and-drop behavior which makes it trivial to load data in a view:

• Select dataset(s)
• Hold LMB down and move to view plugin in which you want to show the data
• Drop the data by releasing the LMB

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