Network Infographic - What is Graph Category for?
Was looking at the infographic Network, but didn't see what the two category inputs were for. Any more documentation?
https://www.datameer.com/documentation/display/DAS60/Network
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Jeff, I agree that the documentation currently is incomplete regarding these inputs. I've submitted a request to our Documentation team on your behalf to get these additional configuration options documented. We'll get that page updated soon.
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Jeff, the two category fields allow you to specify a color dimension for the chart. Given that the source and target fields each specify node IDs, the category fields specify their categories.
Let's say you had a network of friend relationships and you wanted to color the nodes according to political affiliation (republican/democrat). You would want to setup the data like so:
S,T,SC,TC
Adam,Bob,R,D
Adam,Carl,R,R
Bob,Carl,D,R
Bob,Dave,D,D
Dave,Adam,D,R
etc.
The resulting chart would have nodes where the republicans are one color and the democrats are another.
It is important here that each time a node is referenced in a row, it has the same category value. In the above example, Adam is listed 3 times and in each case has category R.
Hope that helps!
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