Finding the auto category variables used by an analysis

When a word cloud is created, an Analysis variable is created to hold the sorted word categories. You can find out which auto category variable is used by looking at the sources for an analysis Select the word cloud in the list of analyses. Click on the Analyses window toolbar to see what the sources […]

Changing the default stop words

You may find that you want to exclude particular words from your word clouds. You can do this by changing the default stop word list. The stop word list consists of a text file consisting of all the words you want to exclude. Default stop word files are supplied for multiple languages. Note that if […]

Creating a word cloud from a cross-tabulation

You can break your word cloud down by the responses to another variable. For example, this shows food orders by gender. Add a legend to your word cloud If you wish, you can change the font, font color and space around the legend. The legend is previewed at the bottom right of the dialog.

Creating a word cloud of literal responses

You can create a word cloud of literal responses using the cloud analysis type. Setting up which words are shown in the cloud Because the words are collected from all responses, there may be some that are not helpful to have in your cloud. You can choose which words are shown in your cloud. You […]

Overview of word clouds

Word clouds provide a quick way to see what responses are most common. The more common a term is, the larger it appears in the cloud. You can create word clouds from any type of variable. They are most often used for displaying open-ended literal responses to see how often particular words appear in comments. […]

Displaying counts and percentage figures on a bar chart

Bar charts normally display one value per bar. You can choose whether this is: the count (number of respondents who chose that response) the percentage (number of respondents as a percentage of the total) If you want to display both the counts and the percentage value, you need to pass in the counts and use […]

Creating a combination chart to display respondent means as points and bars

You can create a combination chart to compare the means of groups of respondents in a satisfaction survey with the mean responses of all respondents. This example uses the data provided in the Crocodile Rock Cafe survey supplied with Snap XMP Desktop to display the average satisfaction for men and women at the Crocodile Rock […]

Using gap analysis to interpret importance with satisfaction

Gap analysis shows the difference between how important attributes are to your respondents and how satisfied they are with those attributes. By comparing importance and satisfaction scores on your chart you can use gap analysis to identify priorities for improvement. If the importance bar is longer than the satisfaction one there may be a problem. […]

Creating a Hi-Lo chart showing maximum and minimum values

Hi-Lo charts can be used to show limited statistics. Click to display the Analysis Definition dialog for a chart. Add the variables of type quantity to the Analysis field, separated by commas. Set the Break to STATS or select Statistics table in the dropdown list. Check the Transpose box. Select the style Hilo in the […]