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title: "Visualize heatmaps"
slug: "visualize-heatmaps"
updated: 2025-04-03T07:14:10Z
published: 2025-04-03T07:14:10Z
canonical: "docs.akridata.ai/visualize-heatmaps"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Visualize heatmaps

Heatmaps registered in the catalog can be used as auxiliary metadata information within an exploration, analyze, or compare job. This article describes the required steps.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/3e9d4528-fbc6-4948-a804-8ee7068e7ac3/Images/Documentation/image(40).png)

1. Import heatmap file locations into the catalog as per [Import raw file path](/data-explorer/docs/import-raw-files).
2. Create a view that joins a primary table with the imported table with heatmap file information. Refer to [Catalog Views](/data-explorer/docs/catalog-views-1) for the general process to create a view. Select **‘Add Blob Type Mapping’**for this specific use case in the **‘Type mapping’** step of the view creation flow.
3. Specify the TYPE MAPPING parameters
  1. Select ‘Container’ as the container where heatmap files have been uploaded.
  2. Select **‘Type’** as ‘AKD_Heatmap’ and select the column name holding the relative file path to heatmap files. The **‘Mapped column name’** will be auto-filled to a unique name, which you can edit as required. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/3e9d4528-fbc6-4948-a804-8ee7068e7ac3/Images/Documentation/image(41).png)
  3. Continue with the rest of the view creation steps.
4. Create a visualization job from the above-created view. Refer to [job creation](/data-explorer/docs/create-an-explore-job) for general steps to create a visualization job.

Once the job is ready, the full-resolution view will present the original image with a heatmap overlay in a side-by-side view.
5. Use the marked control to change the transparency of the heatmap as required. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/3e9d4528-fbc6-4948-a804-8ee7068e7ac3/Images/Documentation/opacity.png)