Exporting images and data

Visplore supports multiple ways of exporting information. The most important ones are exporting images, and exporting data tables. These can be exported either to the clipboard or a file.

Intro image for data and image export

Preparation (to follow this lesson using demo data)

For the tutorial, load the solar power demo dataset from the welcome dialog, as shown below.   

Howto load solar demo data

Export diagrams as image

It is possible to export each diagram in Visplore as an image. Let's export a Scatter Plot, as found in the cockpit "Trends and Distributions", or "Correlations".

Ensure the Scatter Plot is visible, by selecting two time series, and clicking the view tab "Scatter Plot". Then, click the view title "Scatter Plot", and click the last option "Export". Some views offer both image and data export - in this case, a click on "image export" gets you to the next step.

Option to export 2D scatter plot
Visplore options with image export

The dialog allows to change parameters of the image export:

  1. Choose the target of the export. This can either be "Clipboard" (default) or "File".
  2. Preview of the image to be exported in the full resolution.
  3. Overview of the image, can be used to navigate in the full resolution preview. This is not shown if the export dialog is large enough to fit the entire image, it appears if the export size would be larger than the dialog.
  4. Change parameters such as the resulting image size, visibility of parts of the diagram (e.g. the color legend), or other appearance aspects (e.g. the used font).

Confirm the export by clicking "OK" in the dialog.

By default, this results in the image being copied to the clipboard. The image can then be pasted into other applications, such as Microsoft Word or Excel, by using Ctrl + V.



Export data of diagrams

Visplore offers numerous options for exporting selected raw data as well as aggregated values.

Export the data of the displayed "Statistics" table to the clipboard and paste the resulting table into another application of your choice (e.g. Microsoft Excel):

Process of exporting data in Visplore

Similar to the image export dialog, the data export dialog allows to change some parameters of the export:

  1. Choose the target of the export. This can either be "Clipboard" (default) or "File".
  2. Preview of the data table to be exported.
  3. Change parameters of the export such as the format (e.g. the column separators), visibility of parts of the table (e.g. the diagram title), or other appearance aspects.


Export selected data subset

The currently selected data subset (i.e. the data in "focus") can be exported by pressing the "export" button in the focus bar, either to the clipboard, or to a file.

Export selected data only

Export selected data to clipboard: By pressing the button in the title bar, the data records in focus are copied to the clipboard, in one of three ways. Then they can be inserted directly into tools such as Excel.

For all three types, the order of the rows corresponds to the order of the data records loaded into the cockpit in ascending order. When you press CTRL+C, the type of clipboard export that was last selected by mouse click is always executed (during the current execution of the cockpit, is not persistent). If no export has been performed yet (e.g. immediately after cockpit start), all records in focus are exported with CTRL+C (Third option of the list).

Export selected data as CSV: Exports records in focus to a csv-file. After selecting the export format and specifying a file name, the actual values of the selected records are exported in table form. This also includes user-defined data attributes such as predictions of trained regression models. Rows of the table are only all times in the focus, columns in this case are all imported time series (that is, independent of role assignment).

Using the "export" action in the focus bar is a simple way of making the results of data labeling and data editing available for other tools.



Exporting data table and view tables to Python, R, Matlab

See the API documentations of these connectors for examples, how to retrieve Visplore data from these environments

Well done! You have mastered the basics of exporting, to get your insights out of Visplore and back into your analytics workflow :)




>> Continue with Next lesson: Data filtering




License Statement for the Photovoltaic and Weather dataset used for Screenshots:
"Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."
Source of Dataset (in its original form): https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/photovoltaic--pv--solar-panel-energy-generation-data
License: UK Open Government Licence OGL 3: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Dataset was modified (e.g. columns renamed) for easier communication of Visplore USPs.