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# Explore an Analysis

The Analysis tab has two modes: Explore and Selection. You can change the mode by using the buttons at the upper right of the visualizations screen.

In Explore mode, you can navigate through the visualizations and view items. In Selection mode, you can extract the results and visualizations to your Notebook to use in reports.

For more information about Selection mode, see Use the Notebook.

The different ways that you can explore the data depend on the exact visualization that you are using.

The following elements are common to all visualizations

- Click the expand icon to expand a visualization to full screen, or to view a particular result in full detail.

- Click the close icon to close a result or visualization (for example to pick a new one).

All visualizations update when you apply new changes to your query (see Build Your Query).

The following sections provide more information about each visualization type.

## Connectivity View

The connectivity visualization shows how your results relate to each other. The exact connections depend on your data, and your system configuration.

A common example might be social media posts, where each result post and each user is a node in the diagram. The diagram then shows connections between users and their posts, and between users and other users. For example, connections might mean replies or re-posts, or users that follow each other on the original platform. Different source data results in different types of connections that you might want to highlight.

You can click a node and then click to view the data for that result. Depending on the node that you select, it shows user data or a result post.

## List View

The list view provides a simple list of results for your query. Each item in the list shows some information about the result, such as a title, image (when applicable), date, and the start of the result text (or a generated summary, depending on your system configuration).

To view a particular result, click the result in the list to select it. Your selection is outlined, and a small box shows that you have an item selected. Click to show a preview of the result content.

## Geo Map View

The geographical map initially shows a world map, with markers to show the locations associated with your results. You can double-click to zoom in on a particular region, or use the blue + and - icons to zoom in and out.

When you click on a location, you can see how many results there are for the region. From there, you can click an individual result and then click to view the result preview.

## Timeline View

The timeline shows how different results relate in time. The view shows the time along the top, and then different result sources down the left side.

Each node on the timeline is a result. You can click a result and then click to show the preview.

## Topic Map View

The topic map view shows the most common topics that occur in your results. Each box shows a term that occurs in your results, and the relative sizes of the boxes gives an indication of how many results that term occurs in.

For the larger boxes, there is often a second layer of topics. You can click in the box to show these subtopics.

When you click the title of a particular result, it adds that topic to your conceptual search box in the query builder. You can then click Apply to modify the query with these topics and update the results list.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Discover 25.2

Topic Title: Explore an Analysis