Category Web Graph

This tab displays a category web graph. The web presents the documents or records overlap for the categories to which the documents or records belong according to the selection in the other panes. If category labels exist, these labels appear in the graph. You can choose a graph layout (network, circle, directed, or grid) using the toolbar buttons in this pane.

In the web, each node represents a category. Using your mouse, you can select and move the nodes within the pane. The size of the node represents the relative size based on the number of documents or records for that category in your selection. The thickness and color of the line between two categories denotes the number of common documents or records they have. If you hover your mouse over a node in Explore mode, a ToolTip displays the name (or label) of the category and the overall number of documents or records in the category.

Note: By default, the Explore mode in enabled for the graphs on which you can move nodes. However, you can switch to Edit mode to edit your graph layouts including colors, fonts, legends, and more. For more information, see Using Graph Toolbars and Palettes.
If you copy the graph data, using the Copy Visualization Data button, and paste it into a spreadsheet or text editor, you will see that the data is given column headers such as V1, V2, through to V7. These columns contain the following information:
  • V1, V2 These values correspond to the screen coordinates (X and Y, respectively).
  • V3, V5 List the category concept.
  • Size, V6 Shows the number of documents the concepts were found in.
  • V7 Currently unused.