Interactive Heat Map
The final result of the NG-CHM Heat Map build process is the presentation of your completed heat map on the Interactive Heat Map screen. This screen leverages the NG-CHM Viewer application, with all of it's features, to display the heat map in a fully interactive presentation. The NGCHM Heat Map Viewer is a dynamic, graphical environment for exploration of clustered or non-clustered heat map data. For information on the features of the NG-CHM Viewer, please see the full documentation.
The configuration panel for the NG-CHM Builder Interactive Heat Map screen provides a number of options for the user to leverage the heat map that they just constructed. You can explore the map here, but will need to save it locally or download a PDF to view it later. You can get a local copy of the heat map viewer and use it to dynamically explore your map at any time. Please refer to the Configuration Controls list (below) for a description of the features available for saving, printing, and generating images of your newly created heat map.
The results panel of this screen contains a fully-featured embedded version of the NG-CHM Viewer application. The user may interact with the heat map freely in this panel. It is also possible, using the Expand Map button, to enlarge the panel to full screen size to better work with your heat map.
Configuration Controls
| Buttons | Function of Button |
|---|---|
| Get NGCHM File | Press this button to download a portable (.NGCHM) file containing the heat map. This file may be opened in the stand-alone NG-CHM File Viewer application which may also be downloaded from this screen. |
| Get Heat Map PDF | Press this button to create a configurable PDF document for the heat map. This PDF is the best source for publication quality images of the heat map. |
| Get Expanded PDF | Press this button to download the Expanded PDF for your heat map. This file contains a PDF that is large enough to show all row and column labels at one time. It contains a single image for the entire heat map, along with all labels and legends. It is likely too large to print but useful for visual display and investigation. |
| Get Heat Map Viewer | Press this button to download a .HTML file containing the NG-CHM File Viewer application. This application may be used to open saved .NGCHM files containing heat maps making any saved .NGCHM portable. |
| Get Creation Log | Press this button to generate a PDF document containing the creation log for this heat map. This log contains a listing of all of the configuration setting changes that were made during the creation of the heat map and may be used to recreate the map at a later date. |
| Get Thumbnail Image | Press this button to download a small .PNG image of the summary side of this heat map. This image may be used as a small ‘overview’ image for the map in publications or as a click-able thumbnail to be displayed on pages with embedded heat maps. |
| Start New Heat Map | Press this button to delete the current heat map configuration and return to the Matrix Selection screen to create a new heat map. Please note that any entries for the current heat map will be lost. You may wish to save a .NGCHM for the map before proceeding. |
| Expand Map | Press this button to expand the size of the heat map results panel to full screen mode. |
| Collapse Map | Press this button to collapse the size of the heat map results panel back to normal size. |
| Prev Button | Press this button to return to the Format Heat Map screen. |
| Return to Beginning Button | Press this button to return to the Matrix Selection screen at the beginning of the heat map creation process. All settings for your current heat map will be retained. |