How to Create a 100% Stacked Area Visualization

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

To a state where you display the table in a stacked area visualization that totals 100%:

A 100% Stacked Area chart rescales the values of each series so that they all add up to 100%, presenting the values as a proportion of the whole.

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 - Create via the visualization menu

1. In the toolbar, go to Visualization > Area >  Stacked Area 100%.
   
   
2. Drag the cursor over the page to place the visualization.
3. 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 - Create using an existing table

1. Select an existing table (either crosstab or multiway).
2. From the object inspector, go to Visualization > Area > Stacked Area 100%.

OPTIONAL: You can make further adjustments to the appearance via the Chart options in the object inspector.

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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