Palettes

Nodes (operations on the data) are contained in palettes. The palettes are located at the bottom of the Modeler user interface. Each palette contains a group of related nodes that are available for you to add to the data stream. For example, the Sources palette contains nodes that you can use to read data into Modeler, and the Graphs palette contains nodes that you can use to explore your data visually. The icons that are shown depend on the active, selected palette.

The following is a brief description of each palette's functionality:

• The Favorites palette contains commonly used nodes. You can customize which nodes appear in this palette, as well as their order—for that matter, you can customize any palette.
• Sources nodes are used to access data.
• Record Ops nodes manipulate rows (cases).
• Field Ops nodes manipulate columns (variables).
• Graphs nodes are used for data visualization.
• Modeling nodes contain dozens of data mining algorithms.
• Output nodes present data to the screen.
• Export nodes write data to a data file.
• IBM SPSS Statistics nodes can be used in conjunction with IBM SPSS Statistics.