DataZoo Data Tutorial

Prepared views are ways to store the product of data exploration produced through data filtering, plotting, or integration. There are two kinds of views:

• Plots
• Tables

Shown below is the Prepared Views page, displaying a list of saved views as well as their types (plot or table) and a description. Clicking on the title of an entry will produce that saved view.

Both plots and table views of data are produced from parameterized URLs. That is, when you produce a plot or a view a table of data you are visiting a specific URL that was constructed from the set of selections provided through either the filtering or the plotting interface of DataZoo. The parameters in the URL are then used to construct a database query against the dataset (an individual one or a composite produced through the integration interface) and return that data as a plot or a table.

So prepared views are saved parameterized data queries. That means that their results are dynamic and reflect the contents of the database at the time they are accessed. They represent, then, not a particular plot image or data table but a specific query of the data with the results then presented in one of the two formats.

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