topic Re: Network navigator in Developer

Network navigator

Milenaish — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:57:30 GMT

When I add a value to specify the weights of the nodes (source node weight and target node weight) they become a mess. What I realize is that the values are not summed up so that the node sizes, representing each individual in the network, could grow according to the weight of the agent, even when I choose the sum option in the fields of source node weight and target node weight.What I realized is that the structure of the network is based on the first value of the first connection of the agent in the network (in alphabetical order), thus the size of the balls does not represent the sum of the value of the agent, that way the network gets distorted and messed up. I would like to know if there is any other way to sum up the values, so the node sizes can correctly correspond to those values.

Re: Network navigator

v-viig — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 06:41:43 GMT

Hello @Milenaish,

As far as I know, there isn't another way unfortunately.
I'll contact author of this visual to find out more.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Network navigator

v-viig — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 07:30:40 GMT

Hello @Milenaish

Author of Network Navigator has reported that this visual doesn't support scaling but auhtor has proposed a couple of workarounds:

The user can create another table that is pre-aggregated on Source Node & Target Node, and scales the Source Node Weight and Target Node Weight fields to say 2 - 10, and it will produce a decent graph (i.e. One row for each Source Node & Target Node combination with the Source Node Weight and Target Node Weight columns scaled to 2 - 10).
Add two new columns to the current table, Source Node Weight Scaled and Target Node Weight Scaled, which scales Source Node Weight by YourScale (Source Node Weight / YourScale), and Target Node Weight by YourSecondScale (Target Node Weight / YourSecondScale ), then select Sum on Source Node Weight Scaled and Sum on Target Node Weight Scaled on the visual field.

Please let us know if these workarounds work for you.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com