29.9.28 Hierarchical Edge Bundling Diagram

1 Data Requirements
2 Creating the Graph
3 Template
4 Notes
- 4.1 Different Highlight Modes

Data Requirements

Select at least 4 columns in a worksheet: From, To, and Leaves Nodes(Optional) columns define the connection between leaves. Child, Parent columns define the hierarchical structure.

Creating the Graph

Select required data.
From the menu, select Plot > Categorical: Hierarchical Edge Bundling.

Template

EdgeBundling.otpu (installed to the EXE folder of Origin)

Notes

Hierarchical Edge Bundling helps you to visualize adjacency relations between leaf nodes organized in a hierarchy with parent nodes. It will bundle the adjacency leaf nodes together to reduces visual clutter.

Once you have created a Hierarchical Edge Bundling diagram, you can

Control how to show the connect lines
Show bubbles for leaves and control the display format
Select a grouping column as Subset to group the leaves together and show nodes for the groups if needed

To know the parts of a Hierarchical Edge Bundling diagram,

For information on the customizing a Hierarchical Edge Bundling diagram, see these topics:

Note:

Once you checked Bubbles for Leaves in Layout tab, the Symbol tab will show to let you customize the bubbles of leaves.
Once you checked Nodes for Subset in Layout tab, the Node tab will show to let you customize the nodes of subsets.

Different Highlight Modes

Once you created a Hierarchical Edge Bundling diagram, you can click the graph layer and then click the mini toolbar to open the Highlight Mode dialog to define how to highlight the plot elements when you click on the leaf symbol or label.

Highlight Mode

Specify the highlight mode to highlight the related plot elments when you click the leaf symbol or label.

Fade Out Others: Only fade out the other flows.
Different Colors for Import and Export: Show different colors for import and export flows. Once you selected this mode, you can further customize the line color and label color.

Further Controls for "Different Colors for Import and Export" Mode

Import Line Color

Specify the line color for the import flow on current leaf.

Export Line Color

Specify the line color for the export flow on current leaf.

Label Color of Selected Point

Specify the label color for current selected leaf/point.

Same Color for Labels

Specify whether use same color for the labels of "import from" and "export to" leaves/points.

Fade Out Others

Fade out other flows which are not related with current point/leaf.

Note: Besides this special highlight mechanism for leaves, you can alos click on other plot elements for general highlighting:

Click a line, highlight the input and output node, including symbol, group node, labels.
Click a group node, highlight the links relate to this node, like chord plot.

Legend Display

Once you have created the graph, you can click the Reconstruct Legend button to add the legend. By default, all categorical values(including the label font color) will be listed. You can right-click on the legend to select Legend: Categorical Values to open the dailog to customize the legend entries.

You aslo can click the Add Bubble Scale button to add a bubble scale for the symbol leaves in different scale. Clcik it, you can use the mini toolbar buttons to customize it.