Overview

Quiver has two view modes for conducting analysis: the Canvas and the Graph.

Canvas

A Quiver canvas is a page on which you can display, position, and resize cards in your analysis. You can create multiple canvases and organize your cards across different canvases. This makes canvases ideal for hiding complex transformation paths that you don't want to display. For example, you can use one canvas to add your data and then transform, smooth, and filter the data. Then, you can use a second canvas to display the resulting plots and charts for a presentation. Note that data is shared between canvases.

Canvas mode is ideal for building a customized view of your analysis, as this mode offers maximum flexibility to choose what content to display or hide and to choose the size and position of cards on the screen.

Read more about how to conduct analysis on canvases.

Graph

Quiver's Graph provides a graphical view of your analysis, where cards are represented by nodes on the Graph and each card is linked to its inputs and outputs.

This mode is useful for understanding the lineage of your analysis. The Graph allows you to see all of the content in your analysis at once, along with the logical paths involved.

Read more about how to conduct analysis in the Graph.

Learn more about navigating the dependency graph on the Palantir Developer YouTube channel. ↗

Graph versus Canvas

You can toggle between the two view modes by clicking the dropdown selector at the top right corner of the screen.

You can switch between Graph and Canvas seamlessly while building your analysis. This means that if you started in Canvas mode and added some cards to your analysis, upon switching to Graph mode you will see all these cards on the graph (and vice versa).

Key differences to note between Canvas and Graph include:

• While cards can be hidden from the view in Canvas, cards are always visible in the Graph.
• Cards can be separated into multiple canvases. You cannot create multiple graphs for one analysis.