Clustering in FoodChain-Lab

Tasks

  • Perform a clustering using the following workflow: https://github.com/SiLeBAT/BfROpenLab…
  • Cluster all French primary producers based on their city.
  • That means all stations from the same city should be put into one meta-station.
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  • A window showing the delivery network opens.

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  • Right click in the graph to open the context menu and select Set Selected Stations.

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  • You should see this dialog now.
  • Press the button in the red circle to change the Property value.

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  • Select “Country”.

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  • Now select “FR” as Value, since we want to cluster stations in France.
  • Afterwards press Add to add another condition.

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  • For the new condition select “type of business” as Property and “Primary Producer” as Value, since we want to cluster primary producers only.
  • Now press OK.

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  • All French primary producers are selected now, which is indicated by the blue color.

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  • Right click in the graph to open the context menu and select Collapse by Property to cluster the selected stations.

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  • Select Yes to only cluster selected stations.

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  • We want to cluster on city level. That means all stations from the same city will be merged.
  • Select City and press OK.

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  • Just press OK, since we do not want to exclude any cities.

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  • All French primary producers have been clustered to cities.
  • Each selected station (blue circle) is a French city.

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  • Select “Picking” as Editing Mode and click in the graph to deselect all stations.
  • You can now see, that one of the stations is yellow. That means, that this station (French city) is connected to all outbreak spots (red circles).

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  • Since the graph looks confusing now, we should reapply the layout algorithm.
  • Right click in the graph and select Apply Layout > Fruchterman-Reingold in the context menu.

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  • The stations should be arranged in better way now.
  • The layout algorithm is not deterministic, therefore your result will look different from the screenshot.
  • To see which city is connected to all outbreak spots double click on the yellow circle.

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  • As you can see in the dialog the city is “Perpignan”.
  • Press Switch to GIS to see the city and its relations on a map.