The Scuba UI is user-friendly and meant designed for daily use by a wide range of users, including those in non-technical roles like productinteractive, exploratory use by a variety of users, including users in “non-technical” roles such as product, marketing, content development, support, and sales, as well as engineers and data scientists.
With Scuba, you can quickly iterate through Scuba encourages rapid iteration with point-and-click query building and interactive visualizations. You can move seamlessly from one panel to another using boards, exploring the underlying data by adjusting parameters Boards let you go from any panel to explore the underlying data, changing parameters and drilling down to get a better understanding of inspect and understand what’s behind the summary. Even users Users who previously were passive viewers of data can data can become active investigators with Scuba.
In addition to running Use the Scuba UI to run ad hoc queries and visualizations in Explore, Scuba also enables you to springboard into analyses with apps, work with your data using with properties, and pin valuable useful queries and analyses to boards.
Before you can get to the fun part of interacting with your data, it's important to understand the basics of Scuba first. This article will help you do just that by describing the various elements of the platform, and how to navigate around the platform.
Let’s begin with a brief overview of Scuba’s primary features found in the side navigation bar.
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Home
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Boards
Boards offer provide a convenient space to gather to collect and categorize organize queries through in visual panels. This dedicated space showcases boards that have been created and shared on the cluster, empowering users to effortlessly engage with boards they have authored or that were authored by others.
Moreover, these boards can be expertly curated, filtered, managed and shared, while also allowing users to effortlessly add customized panels and modify parameters to delve deeper and unlock new insights from the data.
The navigation panel for Boards allows users to view All Boards, Favorites, boards created by the user(Mine), as well as Groups the user is part of.
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The main navigation window displays a list of boards, and also provides pivotal details about each board, as well as the ability to add new boards, search and filter existing ones, add/remove as a favorite, select boards to add to a group, and delete outdated/unused.
Each board contains a menu bar at the top that displays the name of the board and a star, (highlighted if the board is a favorite), the Mode for sampling rate, last refresh timestamp with the ability to refresh on the fly, and other features which give users the ability to edit and share the board.
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Mode can be adjusted between Auto, Fast and Complete.
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Edit gives the ability to change the name of the Board, move panels around, and delete them.
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You can add custom panels, then modify parameters to drill down and further explore the data.
Board icons
When you click the Boards icon in the left navigation bar and select a board, a list of icons appears on the right. Boards icons facilitate the tasks you perform with boards:
Select a Board—Displays a list of boards. You can select a board from the list or create a new board.
Board Info—Displays a description and detailed information about the current board.
Favorite Board—Adds the current board to your list of personal Favorite boards.
Filter Board—Allows you to construct and simultaneously apply filters to all panels on the current board.
Duplicate Board—Makes a duplicate copy of the current board, appending "copy" to the board name.
Refresh Board—Updates the data on all the panels of the current board.
Delete Board—Prompts you for confirmation before deleting the current board.
Share Board—Copies the URL for the current board, so you can send it to another individual or an entire team.
Email Board—Emails the board to a list of users.
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Favoriting boards
There are two types of Favorite boards: personal favorites and global (or admin) favorites.
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Read more about managing your objects in Change the visibility of properties.
Renaming a board
You can rename any board you've created or have write access to by clicking inside the text field and entering the new name.
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Moving panels
You can move a panel on the board by clicking the icon in the bottom right corner and dragging it to the new location. The other panels on the board rearrange themselves accordingly.
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Viewing panel details
You can view the details of a panel by hovering the cursor over an area. A tooltip dialog appears with the details of that data point.
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Opening a panel in Explore or app view
You can open a panel in Explore by clicking Explore in the bottom right corner of the panel.
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See Create a board and add a panel in the tutorial.
Customize boards with saved board filters
You might want to display the same data from one board but filtered to different geographic regions, or filtered by some other segment.
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See Customize a board for multiple audiences with saved board filters in the User's Guide.
Explore
Explore is where you construct queries and analyze results in various formats. You can also modify existing queries to explore the data on a granular level.
Constructing a query
The sentence model query builder lets you create queries that read like an actual sentence.
The sentence model query builder is on the left side of the Explore view window, as shown in the following example. When you make a selection in the query builder, valid options—from the data and action dictionary—are shown from which you can choose. For more information, see the step-by-step instructions for creating a simple query in Create a board and add a panel.
Viewing queries in different formats
Switch between query result visualizations by clicking the icons at the center-top of the Explore window: Time View, Table View, Sankey view, number view, bar view, pie or sunburst view, and line view.
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The following example shows a flow in Sankey view.
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Pinning a query (to a board)
You can pin a query to a board as a panel for monitoring and quick reference. Simply click the Pin icon at the top of the Explore window and select a board. For more information, see Create a board and add a panel in the tutorial.
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Apps
Apps let you streamline analysis and reach insights quickly. Access apps in the left menu bar.
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Use flows to take a sequence of events by a particular actor, then segment a chunk of those events to operate on with finer granularity.
Retention
Retention analysis reveals how long a user is spending with your product or service, when the user stops using, and when the user re-engages. This helps you learn which features are sticky, which features turn away users, and the level of customer loyalty.
See Analyze user retention or engagement with the retention module in the Users Guide.
A/B view
A/B testing helps you measure iterations of your experience using metrics that matter to you.
See Analyze A/B testing results in the User's Guide.
Distribution
Distribution view shows the range of events represented in the data and the frequency with which each event occurs.
See Analyze a distribution in the Users Guide.
Data model
The data model shows your event data along with user-defined objects: actor properties, event properties, flows, flow properties, and measures.
Event properties
The Event properties tab displays a table of event properties you can use to construct queries. You can also create a new Event property by clicking the button in the top right corner of the window. For more information, see Create an event property.
Click an event property in the table to view details for the property, as shown in the following example.
Actor properties
The Actor properties tab displays a table of actor properties you can use to construct queries. You can also create new Actor properties by clicking the button in the upper right corner of the window. For more information, see Create an actor property.
Click an actor property in the table to view details of the property. You can modify the property by changing the option selections in the panel on the left.
Flows
Use flows to take a sequence of events by a particular actor, then segment a chunk of those events to operate on with finer granularity.
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Click a flow in the table to view the flow. You can modify the flow by changing the option selections in the panel on the left and then re-running the query. For information, see Modify a query.
Measures
You can create a flow using a Show or Calculate /wiki/spaces/LEXICON/pages/1302495656 and use the new measure in a top-level query. For more information, see Determine a ratio in the Tutorial.
Help
Clicking the Help icon takes you to the Scuba versions 3 and 4 documentation page. You can view help topics in a selection of 3.x/4.x Guides.
Navigate to Scuba 2.x and general topics by clicking the links in the top right corner of the window.
What's Next
Now that you've gotten your bearings with the Scuba layout and functionality, you can jump in and create a board and add a panel.
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