I have been playing with the nodes for NETWORK analysis and I couldn't figure out why I can't add new colors in my Network Viewer.
Here is my goal and an example of the data is attached:
1 - I want to have a network to understand the relation between my "customers", "stores", "segments"
2-I'm trying to use the column "D" for the size of the nodes, showing the name of customers but using different colors for segments. I can't change the colors using segments and I don't know why.
all visual properties are defined via corresponding features in the network. So if you want to set the node color, shape and size you have to add them as node features to the network.
I wanted to add these information to your network but it didn't contain any data so I have added a second branch to your workflow with a dummy network and dummy data that is visualized.
Attached you can slo find a screen shot of my example workflow which uses the existing color, size and shape manager nodes to define those on a node table. These visual properties are then extracted into separate columns using the Visualization Property Extractor and inserted into the network as node feature using the Multi Feature Inserter node. Once the node features are available you can use the in the Node Layout tab for node color, node label color, size, shape etc. This also works for edges in the same way just add color and size features to the network for edge ids instead of node ids and select the features in the Edge Layout tab. By the way you can also use images as node shapes. Just add the image as node feature to the network and select the image feature as Icon in the Node Layout tab.
you need to specify the node or edge id in the Multi Feature Inserter node otherwise the node is attaching the feature values to the graph itself (see node descrition). Attached you can find the altered workflow with additional annotations and smaller improvements (e.g. only using the unique brands).