Explore Tab

The Explore tab is the primary workspace inside a dataset. All viewing, search, filtering, cluster navigation, quality analysis, and selection happen here. For a task-oriented walk-through of the workflow this tab supports, see Exploring Datasets.

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Layout Overview

The Explore tab is organized into four numbered regions that stay in place as you navigate, plus the Insights Panel on the right. The Insights Panel on the right of the workspace hosts insights, quality issues, labels, user tags, and metadata for the current view or selection. It stays visible alongside the numbered regions.

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Top Header

The top header is the orientation strip across the very top of the workspace. It identifies the dataset and hosts the tab row. The header contains the following elements: Dataset-wide controls sit on the right side of the top header and are documented in Dataset Actions below.

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Filter & Search Area

The filter and search area is the horizontal row directly beneath the header. It holds the Search Type Toggle on the left, the Layout Toggle on the right, and the Search box and Filter Menu in the center.

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Search Type Toggle

The Search Type Toggle on the left side of the filter and search area sets what you are searching against: Images or Objects. This is more than a cosmetic change — it determines which embeddings are used for search, which metadata appears in the workspace, and what every filter, search, and hover action operates on. The Objects option is available once an object-detection model has run against the dataset. If the option is disabled, run a model such as VL-Object-Detector from the Enrich tab first. For what changes in the workspace when you flip between Images and Objects, see Switching the Search Type.

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Labels, Captions, and User Tags

Each cluster card displays one metadata type at a time. Use the switch at the top of the cluster to change which metadata is shown. The three options answer different questions about the cluster: Which labels and captions appear on a cluster depends on which enrichment models have run against the dataset. For the full mapping of models to the metadata they produce, see the Model Catalog. To run or add models, go to the Enrich tab.

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Layout Toggle

The Layout Toggle on the right side of the filter and search area switches between Visual Similarity (clustered) and Flat View. It controls how the content grid is arranged, not what appears in it, so it combines with the Search Type Toggle to produce clustered images, clustered objects, a flat image grid, or a flat object grid. For what each layout displays, see Content Grid below. For step-by-step instructions on switching layouts, see How to Search & Filter.

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Search Box

The center of the filter and search area contains the Search box and two adjacent buttons.

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Filter Controls

The filter controls build and manage the active query. Click the Filter Menu icon next to the Search box to open the filters menu. The filters menu offers the following options: Selecting a filter opens the Query Modal for operator and threshold configuration. Active filters appear as chips in the Query Panel below the bar, combined with AND logic. A chip can be edited by clicking it, removed with X, or cleared entirely with Clear All. Save View stores the current filter combination as a named view, which then appears in both the Save View dropdown and the Views tab. For every operator, threshold, and filter-specific workflow, see the Filter Options Reference.

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Dataset Actions

Dataset Actions occupy the right side of the top header and apply to the entire dataset, regardless of which tab is open.

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Content Grid

The content grid is the main display area and the source of all in-place actions. Its contents depend on the active layout selected from the Layout Toggle and the search type selected from the Search Type Toggle.

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Cluster View

In Visual Similarity mode, the grid displays cluster cards. Each card shows a representative thumbnail, the cluster size, and label coverage. When the Search Type Toggle is set to Objects, each card groups detected object crops instead of full images. Hovering any cluster card reveals in-place actions: For the concepts behind clustering and embeddings, see How Search & Filter Work. For cluster navigation tips and examples, see Understanding Clusters. For multi-step workflows that combine clusters with filters, see Recipes.

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Flat View

In Flat View, the grid displays every item in a single ungrouped layout. When the Search Type Toggle is set to Images, each cell is a full image; when set to Objects, each cell is a detected object crop. Object-level browsing becomes available once an object-detection model has run against the dataset — see the Enrich tab for the workflow. Hovering any item reveals in-place actions: Clicking an image opens its details page, where a Region of Interest crop can launch a crop-based Find Similar search. See Search Against a Region of Interest for the full flow.

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Insights Panel

The Insights Panel runs along the right edge of the workspace and shows insights about the current view or selection. Its panels update as filters change, views change, or items are selected. The panel exposes the following sections:

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