Dependency Net Viewer

Hi,

I've got a Decision Tree model and I'm trying to browse the dependency network. Apparently, there are too many nodes and they don't all show up in the view. I know that I can find hidden nodes, but is there a way to show all w/o having to add them one by one to view? How does the UI determine which ones to filter out?

Thanks,

Mike

Excellent question!

The dependency net viewer takes the top 60 nodes determined by a heuristic to be interesting. It uses a mix of input and output nodes to make sure that you don't get all inputs or all outputs (that wouldn't make an interesting diagram, would it?)

Using the dependency net viewer control, you can only add nodes one by one. However, if you use the Data Mining Templates for Visio 2007 (part of the SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Addins for Office 2007 - preview currently available here) you can create a dependency net with however many nodes you like. You can also "grow" a network dynamically by searching for a node and then adding related nodes and then adding related nodes to the related nodes and so on. The preview build requires the Beta 2 Technical Refresh version of Office 2007 to run - in particular for this case, the Beta 2 Technical Refresh of Visio 2007.