Using visual properties

One of KNIME's great features is that it allows you to set certain properties of the views in advance. So, you need not remember how you set them in one view and how it is set in another, you just have to connect them to the same table. This is a big step towards reproducible experimental results and figures with the ease of graphical configuration. Each property is applied to the rows based on column values, so changes in column values will affect (remove) the property and each kind of property is exclusive (a new node with the same kind of properties replaces the original property). When you want to reuse the properties in another place of the workflow, you can use the appender nodes.

The three supported properties are: color, size, and shape.

Color

With the Color Manager node, you can set the color for different rows. The colors can be assigned either to a nominal or a numeric column.

In the case of the nominal columns, each value can have a different color. This...