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How to read dashboards and overview pages?

The following example shows step by step how to approach a dashboard view.

> Step 1

• In the Explore app, navigate to Citizen Science.
• On the Citizen Science page, click the Overview tab on the top of the page.

> Step 2

Familiarize yourself with the available tiles and graphs:

• Categories and topics: An interactive graph. You can view the topic names. Clicking the outer circles lets you zoom into that clicked category. Once you see numbered circles, these correspond to single instances; clicking of one of those navigates you to its details page where you can find all information that is stored on it in our database.
• Initiative description: Shows a wordcloud to capture the sense of the initiative.
• Scope vs. participants: Shows the scope of the initiatives in terms. Example: 133 instances have 100-1000 participants in the national scope. Hovering over the graph show the exact numbers, otherwise, the darker the blue, the higher the number of instances in that category.
• Categories: A graph view of the different categories with there connections. Each circle in the visualisation belongs to a subcategory to the categories listed in the top right, indicated by squares. Connections between circles and squares are based on their colour. The lines between circles show connections.
• Level of participation: A bar chart showing the number of participants per category, for example, "Distributed intelligence" has 469 participants. Hovering over the graph shows the exact numbers.
• Scope
• Latest update: Shows the date of the latest data update.
• Map: Shows the number of initiatives in the

Note that you can interact with the graphs by hovering over them and increase the view of a particular visualisation by clicking the magnifying glass at the top right of the dashboard tile.

> Step 3: Download

• Click on the magnifying glass icon on any of the tiles.

• Here you find a download button that triggers a download of the corresponding plot as a .png file.