How to Create a Palm Tree Chart

Introduction

This article describes how to go from a crosstab or SUMMARY of a variable set structured as a grid, like this:

To a Palm Tree Chart, like this:

Requirements

You will need a table with at least two rows and two columns.

Method

Creating palm tree plots

The charts are created by selecting Create > Charts > Visualization> Exotic > Palm Trees. There are three ways to enter data for palm trees: 

1. Output – select a table output.
For a crosstab of two variables, the values in each column will be be shown as leaves of the same color. If you need to swap rows and columns, under Data manipulation, there is a switch rows and columns checkbox.The order of the trees can be changed interactively, but you may also want to control the default order of the trees and fronds. You can sort the table using options under Row/Column manipulations.
2. Variables – analyse variables in the Data tree without creating intermediate tables.
In particular, you can create a crosstab by selecting two variables and selecting the checkbox for Group by last variable (crosstab) under Data manipulations. However, it is often easier to create a table in a separate step and use option 1 instead.

3. Paste or type data – opens a spreadsheet object for you to directly enter tabular data for this chart. This is the easiest way to copy data from a Excel spreadsheet.

Additional controls for customizing the color and axes can be found in the Chart tab of the Object Inspector.

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