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The embedding plot is a 2D visualization of your high-dimensional data, where proximity between points indicates similarity. This makes it easy to spot clusters, outliers, and patterns at a glance. The Embeddings panel is a toggleable right-hand panel that appears alongside the always-visible grid. When you draw a box selection on the scatter plot, the grid on the left immediately narrows to show only the matching items — no view switching required.
You can draw a rectangular selection on the plot to isolate and explore a specific subset of data points. The grid updates instantly to reflect your selection. Use the Order by drop-down to switch the visualization between data and label embeddings.

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Prerequisites

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Calculate Metrics & Embeddings

  1. Navigate to Projects.
  2. Open the Explore tab.
  3. Click Metrics & Embeddings.
  4. Click Compute for either option.
  5. Specify the following:
    • Similarity & Natural language search and quality metrics: Enable to compute embeddings and quality metrics. Access quality metrics for filtering and sorting.
    • Select embeddings: Default embeddings are computed by Encord. Alternatively, import and select your own custom embeddings.
    • Embeddings plot, Diversity and Uniqueness metrics: Enable to compute UMAP reduction to generate 2D embeddings plots to visualize your data. Also access diversity and uniqueness metrics for curation.
  6. Click Start computation.

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Using Embedding Plots

  1. Navigate to Data > Explore.
  2. Click Frames or Labels.
  3. Click the Embeddings icon in the toolbar row to open the Embeddings panel as a right-hand panel alongside the grid.
  • Use the V + E shortcut to open the Embeddings panel.
  • You can deep-link directly to the Embeddings panel by appending ?panel=embeddings to the Data Explorer URL.
  • In addition to selecting points within a rectangular area, you can use filters (but not sort or natural language or image search) on the data or labels.
  • When a natural language or similarity search is active, matching points appear highlighted in color on the scatter plot while non-matching points appear grayed out.

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Selecting Data with the Embeddings Panel

Draw a box on the scatter plot to select a subset of data points. The grid on the left immediately filters to show only the items within your selection. Use the unified selection toolbar at the bottom of the grid to add or remove selected items from a collection.
Hovering over a point on the scatter plot no longer shows an image preview tooltip. The always-visible grid serves this purpose — items matching your selection appear there instantly.
To clear a box selection, dismiss the selection filter pill in the toolbar. Data Embedding Plot
Label Embedding Plot