Browse
in your navbar.
Cmd + K
(Mac) or Ctrl + K
(Windows, Linux) to open the search bar.
view underlying data
show underlying data
for a field.
Check out the metric reference docs to see how to do this in your Table’s .yml
file.
By default, when you click Explore from here
from the view underlying data
table, you’re brought to an Explore view with no fields selected. If you specify fields in show underlying data
, then these fields will be automatically added to the results table, so users won’t Explore from here
into an empty results table.
drill by
lets you group your metric by a dimension, like the total revenue segmented by (or grouped by) product type. Note that drill by
only works for metrics, not for dimensions or table calculations.
drill into
in the action menu:
browser
so I can figure out if there’s a decrease in traffic from different browsers.
open in new tab
and see a chart with my metric, grouped by Browser
. Now I can uncover where this decrease in profit was coming from.
Explore from here
button.
Explore from here
gives you a copy of the same chart you can play around with. Any changes you make here will not affect the original chart - so you can Explore away without any worry of breaking things!
If you’ve never used the Explore View, then checkout this tutorial on using the Explore View in Lightdash.
Explore
—> Tables
—> then select the table that you want to explore.
If you’ve never used the Explore View, then checkout this tutorial on using the Explore View in Lightdash.