Count Metrics: Exploring data in the Catalog

I'll now show you the ways you can explore catalog data in a project. You have a few different options. First, you could open up a new canvas and connect directly to the catalog from there. Or for a quick one off analysis or a quick data exploration, you can select explore. And finally, you can access a catalog directly from a canvas that you've built within that project. Here's a canvas that I built from my product catalog. You can see in the data bar on the left hand side that the product metrics catalog pulls through as a data source. Beneath that, you'll find the datasets, my workspace datasets, and all of the different views within it. All of these visuals were built using count metrics. If I click on one of the visualizations, it will open up the visual builder. Here, you can see the product metrics catalog as the source, the datasets, and all of the different customized views that pull through in the right hand sidebar. Here, you have local drag and drop functionality to add in additional breakouts as required. A cool feature that we added in to count metrics is the explore from cell. Whilst navigating through a canvas that's been shared with you, you can now click directly on the visual and select explore cell, and it will open up that visual in a new tab. From here then, you can add additional data breakouts and continue exploring the data. You can then choose to save as a canvas, and it will prompt you to choose a project to save it and continue exploring the data in a new canvas. Or if you're happy and finished exploring, you can navigate back to the canvas and it will take you directly back and you can see that the underlying data hasn't changed. I'll quickly navigate back to the product home page and show you how you access it from a new canvas. So within a new canvas, you can quickly add in a visual or table cell and start using that local drag and drop functionality to start exploring the data. Similarly, if you want to do a quick one of analysis, you can open up explore, and it will take you to a table or a visual cell. From here, you can then use templates or, again, pull in that drag and drop functionality.