Visualizer properties

Properties include additional information that is used by the Mining Visualizers to visualize a model.

The Mining Visualizers use the following properties:

  • Model properties control how to visualize a specific model.
  • Visualizer properties apply to all models of the same type, for example, models that are created with the Associations mining function.

If the same property is set as model property and as visualizer property, the model properties are used.

The Mining Visualizers use default settings. For example, colors are used to highlight particular properties of association rules, clusters, and partitions, or clusters are ordered by their size. You can change the default settings by modifying the appropriate parameters in the following Properties notebooks:

Model Properties
Model properties override visualizer properties.

If you change the model properties, the changes apply to the current model only.

For example, you might want to sort the clusters of the current model by their homogeneity values instead of their size values.

Visualizer Properties
If you change the visualizer properties, the changes apply to all models of the same type.

For example, you might want to specify that all models that you are viewing in the Associations Visualizer use colors to indicate the support of rules and the width to indicate their confidence.

Data mining models can have the following formats:

Intelligent Miner® format

Intelligent Miner produces the Intelligent Miner format. This format is only available if you save a model that was built by Intelligent Miner. You can save this format only in a database.

You can use the Intelligent Miner format to modify models that are stored in mining tables. You do not need to export or import the model before you can modify it.

In the Intelligent Miner format, the model properties are saved with the model.

PMML format (.pmml or .xml)

The PMML format is a standardized format. You can use it with different mining tools from other vendors.

Although the data can be compressed, it still can be larger than the compressed visualizer format.

The properties are not stored within the models because this does not correspond to the PMML standard.

Visualizer format (.vis)

You can save models that are originally in Intelligent Miner format or in PMML format in Visualizer format. However, you can use the Visualizer format only with the Mining Visualizers.

In the visualizer format, the data is compressed.

The model properties are saved in the same file.

gzip format (.gz)
You can save models that are originally in Intelligent Miner format or in PMML format in gzip format.

In gzip format, the data is compressed.

In gzip format, the properties are not stored within the models.

If you use the Intelligent Miner format or the Visualizer format, you can save the model properties together with the associated model. If you display a different model, the default properties are used for this model, unless you have previously specified specific model or visualizer properties.

  • To change the properties for the current model, click File => Model Properties....
  • To change the properties for all models of the same type, click File => Visualizer Properties....
  • To restore the default settings, click File => Model Properties... or Visualizer Properties... =>Restore Defaults.

In these topics, the term Properties notebook is used generically for both, the Model Properties notebook and the Visualizer Properties notebook.