Techniques for Exploring Data

Details

This section describes the Selection Mode dialog box, shown in Figure 11.13. To open the Selection Mode dialog box, right-click on a plot or data table, and select Selection Mode from the pop-up menu. Alternatively, click on a data view's title bar to activate it, and select Edit \blacktriangleright\,Selection Mode from the main menu.

The Selection Mode dialog box has the following fields:

Global selection mode
sets the selection mode to be global selection mode.
Local selection mode
sets the selection mode to be local selection mode. The active window will become either a selector view or an observer view. All other data views linked to the active window will become selector views.
Selector View
sets the active window to be a selector view.
Observer View
sets the active window to be an observer view.
Union
sets the active window to be an observer of the union of selector views. An observation is displayed as selected if it is selected in any selector view.
Intersection
sets the active window to be an observer of the intersection of selector views. An observation is displayed as selected if it is selected in all selector views.

The following list presents a few additional details about using local selection mode:

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