Chart Builder: Why only one grouping zone?

[Kirill Orlov]

In old good Interactive graphs (pity, abandoned now by SPSS) you could
group points on a scatterplot by up to 3 features simultaneously - Colour,
Pattern, and Size. I wonder why Chart Builder lets only specify
ONE "grouping zone" for a scatterplot (either colour or pattern). I admit
that via GPL it is possible somehow to order 2 or 3 grouping zones, but is
SPSS going to make it available in the Builder?

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[Jon K Peck]

In the GraphBoard Template Chooser (on Graphs), for scatterplots you can choose grouping variables for any or all of color, shape, size, and transparency.  And using the STATS REGRESS PLOT extension command available from the SPSS Community website, you can also do scatters that are grouped by color, size, and shape as well as panelled across a set of variables.

Igraph is, although deprecated, still available.  The charts are drawn by the same visualization engine used by other graphical procedures.

HTH,

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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In old good Interactive graphs (pity, abandoned now by SPSS) you could
group points on a scatterplot by up to 3 features simultaneously - Colour,
Pattern, and Size. I wonder why Chart Builder lets only specify
ONE "grouping zone" for a scatterplot (either colour or pattern). I admit
that via GPL it is possible somehow to order 2 or 3 grouping zones, but is
SPSS going to make it available in the Builder?

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