Spss pie chart template

The pie chart helps us easily see that nearly half of the people in the dataset are from Ohio, as nearly half of the entire chart is green. Your email address will not be published. Skip to content Menu. Posted on May 28, by Zach. Example: Pie Chart in SPSS Suppose we have the following dataset that shows the state of residence for 15 different people: We can create a pie chart to visualize the frequencies of people from different states by clicking on the Analyze tab, then Descriptive Statistics , then Frequencies : The following window will pop up: Drag state over to the box labeled Variable s , then click on Charts and make sure that Pie charts is selected: Click Continue , then press OK.

The following pie chart will automatically appear: From the chart we can see that 5 people are from Indiana blue , 3 are from Kentucky red , and 7 are from Ohio green.

We'll start off by making sure we're in the Chart Editor window -which is not the same as the Output Viewer. Here we'll navigate to F ile S ave Chart Template as shown below. Finally, choose a folder and a file name. Clicking the S ave button now creates transposed-bar-chart-frequencies Feel free to download and try it. We can now activate this chart template by running something like set ctemplate 'transposed-bar-chart-frequencies You may need to use a full path here if the template file is not in your default directory as set with CD.

From now on, all charts we'll run will have the styling we created for our bar chart. If you don't want that anymore, you can deactivate this template by running set ctemplate none. This seems to be the only method that always works properly.

In contrast to SPSS tablelooks , you'll probably want to develop a separate chart template for each type of chart you run. Thus far, we created a chart template from the Chart Editor menu. Although this is a good first step, this has its limitations. Manually editing the XML is an optional extra step in developing chart templates. If you're not afraid of code, it'll help you develop much better templates than purely relying on the menu. You can also change some styles faster. Summarizing some main points in this tutorial, the flowchart below proposes a development cycle for SPSS chart templates.

Developing chart templates may take some time and trial and error. However, if you create SPSS charts on a regular basis, it'll be well worth the effort. In any case, I hope this introduction will get you started. Tell us what you think! Your comment will show up after approval from a moderator.

In the output window, go to File - Export. Hope that helps! Manage consent. You can also add a legend title left-, center- or right-justify it. To make an annotation, type the text into the text box in the middle of the dialogue box. Select the type of justification that you want from the pull-down menu.

You can add a frame around the text by clicking on that check box. Finally, you will need to indicate where on the graph you want the text to appear.

You do this by giving the coordinate for the x-axis and the coordinate for the y-axis. These coordinates must be within the range of the scale for that axis. Once you have made these specifications, click on the "add" button to add your annotation to the "annotation s " box. To make changes to an existing annotation, highlight it, make the changes in the dialogue box, and then click on "change. This dialogue box will allow you eliminate certain categories or variables from your graph, depending on the options that you selected previously.

This dialogue box will allow you to change the color s of the symbol s used on your graph. This can be any of the text associated with the graph or the numbers on the axes. We do not know of any way to select more than one piece of text at a time.

SPSS allows you to create a "template" and apply it to other graphs that you make or have already made. This template contains many, if not all, of the modifications that you have made to a particular graph. For example, if you have modified the size of text used for the x- and y-axis, selected a color other than the default for the symbols on your graph and added a title to the legend, you can save these changes into a template. Any graph created with the graph command that you apply this template to will have these characteristics.

Highlight math — write and click "swap pair". Options that are general to most types of graphs created with the igraph command After double-clicking on a graph in the output window created with the igraph command, there are two ways to access the dialogue boxes necessary to modify the graph. One is to click on one of the icons in the border surrounding the graph. The icon third from the left on the top will open the chart manager, and highlighting the various elements listed will allow you to open the respective dialogue boxes.

The other way to access the dialogue boxes is to highlight an element of the graph and then right-click on it. Three options that are available for most elements that you can right-click on except legends are the "assign variables", "chart properties" and "ChartLooks". The " assign variables " option allows you to re-assign variables to axes, label cases and make modifications to a pie chart.

If you make appropriate changes, they will immediately be displayed in your graph; if the changes you make do not apply for example, labeling cases in a barchart , no change will be made to your graph. The " chart properties " option opens a dialogue box with eight tabs that allow you to modify many aspects of the graph, including various aspects of the colors, styles, sizes, text, filled objects, axes, grid lines and lines and symbols used.

The changes that you make using chart properties can be save and applied to other graphs as you making them if you use syntax to create the graph or applied after you have made the graph. The third option is called " ChartLooks ". By selecting a "ChartLook" and clicking on "edit look" you can make changes to any of the "ChartLooks. There are at least two other features of most graphs that can be modified that are not specific to the type of graph.

The first is adding annotations to the graph.