Settings Overview

The Settings Window lets you customize how graphs are displayed and explored in TempNetViz.
It is organized into four tabs:

General Settings

These options control the overall appearance and interpretation of your graph:

Remove index row in input – Ignore the first row/column of the input file. This is useful if your data contains labels or indices for the nodes. They can be displayed using show node labels(see below) but should not be included in the analysis.
Show node labels – Display labels for nodes. This will only work if your data has an indexing row/column. Otherwise, node numbers will be displayed.
Edge type – Choose whether your data represents affinity (similarity) or distance (dissimilarity). This determines the way the metrics are computed.
Community detection algorithm – Select with which algorithm groups of nodes are identified and clustered (louvain, walktrap, infomap, modularity).
Remove feedback loops in plots – Hide self-connections (nodes linked to themselves).
Scale edge width – Make edge thickness proportional to edge weight.
Edge thickness – Manually set the thickness of all edges.
Node thickness – Manually set the thickness of all nodes.
Colormap for node metrics – Pick a color scheme for node-related values (Greys, Reds, Greens, Blues, cool, coolwarm, viridis, none).
Colormap for edge values – Pick a color scheme for edge-related values (Greys, Reds, Greens, Blues, cool, coolwarm, viridis).

These options affect how the graph itself is displayed:

Multilayer display – Choose between a 3D multilayer view (layers superposed in a stack, making structure more explicit) or an average projection (all layers combined).
Show planes – Toggle background planes in 3D plots.
Draw edges between layers – Show or hide visual guidelines between nodes across different layers.

These options control how distributions of values are displayed:

Histogram type – Choose between side-by-side histograms or stacked histograms.
Show legend – Toggle the legend on or off.

These options configure animations of temporal graphs:

Time between frames (ms) – Set how fast the animation runs by choosing the delay between frames (in milliseconds).

Changes are applied immediately when you toggle a setting or enter a value.
For numeric settings (e.g., edge thickness, node thickness, animation speed), press Enter after typing to apply the change.
Some settings depend on others (e.g., node labels require an index row).