Including or excluding data

In many visualizations, you can add specificity to your visualized data by selectively including or excluding one or more data items. You may want to do this if, for example, the subset of data of interest to you comprises only a small fraction of the displayed data. In cases such as this, the interesting fraction may occupy such a small portion of the visualization that it is a challenge to see useful details in the visual. By removing uninteresting but dominant (relative to the interesting parts) data from being displayed, a visualization (either a graph or table) can zoom in on the remaining interesting data, displaying more detail and granularity.

Note: The visualizations shown, below, are examples and may not be from the same dashboard or report you are currently viewing.

To make better use of the visualization's space for the data that interests you, you must decide first if what you would like to hide comprises the majority or the minority of the data items on the page. If you would like to hide the majority, it is best to select the items you would like to show and then apply the Keep Only function to the selection. If, instead, you would like to hide a minority of the data items, it's easiest to Ctrl-select all items you would like to hide and then apply the Exclude function to that selection.