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How to Create a Stacked Area Chart

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This article describes how to go from a table containing multiple variables:

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To a state where you display the table in a stacked area chart:

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Requirements

You will need one of the following:

  • A Multiway table. To create a multiway table select Table > Multiway from the toolbar. From the object inspector, go to Inputs and select the Rows, Columns, and Numeric inputs.
  • A crosstab, which is a table that shows the relationship between two or more variables.
  • A table of data pasted from a spreadsheet.

 

Method 1 - From the visualization menu

  1. In the toolbar, go to Visualization > Area >  Stacked Area.
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  2. From the object Inspector, you have 3 different methods for providing input data to the area chart. In the DATA SOURCE section, use one of the following:
      • Output in 'Pages' - select a table output.
      • Variables in 'Data' - select an individual variable from the Data Sets tree. Once an item is selected a second drop-down called Groups will appear in the object inspector. Here you can select a second variable to create a crosstab.
      • Paste or Type data button - copy and paste data from Excel or some other source directly into a spreadsheet object in Displayr.

Method 2 - From an existing table

  1. Select the multiway table or crosstab on the page.
  2. From the object inspector, go to Visualization > Area > Stacked Area.

Note

Important information about editing captions: 

Visualization caption edits may not be retained when a visualization with a nested table is switched back to table. Normally, this only occurs when you double-click the caption and edit the text directly. As a workaround, we recommend using Properties > CAPTION > Edit caption to edit your captions.

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