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C2SPSSBeginnerAbout 30 min to complete

Charts that do not look like SPSS charts

Choosing the chart the data justifies.

Slides · Dataset

About 30 minutes to complete

Enrol to open the slides and download the data.

What this module covers

choosing the chart the data justifies; bar, clustered bar, histogram, box plot, scatter, error bar, line - one slide each with the question it answers; Chart Builder vs Legacy Dialogs; the Chart Editor settings that make SPSS output publishable; killing chartjunk, 3-D and gratuitous colour; greyscale-safe figures for print journals; export at the resolution journals actually require.

By the end of it

  • Choosing the chart the data justifies
  • Bar, clustered bar, histogram, box plot, scatter, error bar, line - one slide each with the question it answers
  • Chart Builder vs Legacy Dialogs
  • The Chart Editor settings that make SPSS output publishable
  • Killing chartjunk, 3-D and gratuitous colour
  • Greyscale-safe figures for print journals
  • Export at the resolution journals actually require

The dataset

Antenatal care and birth outcome — Sigma teaching dataset

A teaching dataset of 300 cases, generated from a fixed seed so every figure in the module reproduces exactly.

  • CodebookIncluded
  • Dataset (CSV)Included
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  • SPSS syntaxIncluded