# Overview
The Data Explorer feature allows you to see how your data is being used throughout the entire Simon product. If you're looking to delete data then with a couple clicks, you can identify if your specified data is currently used in an active flow, journey, etc. so you can confidently act.
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# Access Data Explorer
There are a couple ways to view where your data fields are being used in the platform:
[Via a Data Explorer link](🔗)
[From within a specific dataset](🔗)
## Via a Data Explorer link
This link is located both via the left navigation:
Expand **Datasets**.
Click **Data Explorer** to open it in a new tab.
Click 'Data Explorer'
_or via a dataset_
From the left navigation, click **Datasets**.
Find a dataset that contains the field you want to view usage for then click the **dataset name** to open the editor.
Click **Data Explorer** to open it in a new tab.
From a dataset, click 'Data Explorer'
**Once you've opened the Data Explorer:**
Choose a **category**. If you chose Dataset as your category, select a dataset in the second dropdown. If you chose Dataset Field as your category, select a dataset field in the second dropdown.
The page populates so that you can see that dataset or dataset field is used throughout Simon.
## Via the fields tab on the dataset details page
From the left navigation, click **Datasets**.
Click 'Datasets'
Find a dataset that contains the field you want to view usage for then click the **dataset name** to open the editor.
Click the **Fields** tab.
Find your field and click the **hyperlinked name** to open the Data Explorer in a new tab with the usage pre-populated at the dataset field level.
From here, you can also click any of the colored hyperlinks to view details of the feature the field is linked in.
