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The embedding map turns a set of images into a 2D similarity scatter: Dataerai places each image so that visually alike pictures sit close together and different ones sit far apart. Clusters, duplicates, and outliers that are invisible in a file list become obvious at a glance. It runs on the image embeddings Dataerai already computes for content search, so there’s nothing to set up — open the map and Dataerai builds it for you.
The map plots only images you have Read access to the content of, and only assets that already have an image embedding. Assets you can list but not open, and assets with no picture, never appear on the map.

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Map a collection

Every collection has a Map tab alongside Data and Readme.
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Open the Map tab

Open a collection and select the Map tab. The first time, select Generate map — Dataerai computes the projection in the background and shows it when it’s ready.
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Explore the scatter

Each point is one image’s thumbnail. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, and click a thumbnail to select that asset (its detail opens in the sidebar when the asset is in the view you’re browsing).
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Refresh after changes

Select Refresh to recompute the map after the collection’s images change, so the layout reflects what’s in the collection now.

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Map your search results

On a search, switch the results from List to Map to see the matching assets as a similarity scatter instead of a list. A picker lets you choose what the map plots: The Map view on the advanced search results works the same way: toggle between Graph and Map to flip the matched assets between the relationship graph and the similarity scatter.

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Choose a projection

The method picker controls how the high-dimensional similarity is flattened to two dimensions. All three are deterministic — the same images always lay out the same way. Switching methods recomputes the map for that view; the result is cached, so returning to a method you’ve already run is instant.

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What you’ll see while it builds

A map computes asynchronously. Depending on the state you’ll see:
  • Computing the projection… — the map is being built; it appears when ready.
  • No images to map — none of the assets in scope have an image embedding yet.
  • Nothing to map — the search returned no results to plot.
  • A map that’s taking longer than expected — a one-click Keep waiting lets you keep polling if a large set is still computing.
Each map is yours alone — it’s computed against your own access, so two people opening the same collection’s map each see only the images they can open. There’s a small per-person limit on how many maps can compute at once, so a map may wait briefly if you’ve just kicked off several.