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Making Oneway Plots with Histograms

nocaltim

I am trying to "fix" a problem that did not exist in JMP 10 but is now giving me fits in JMP 11. When I make a Oneway plot, I like to plot the histogram at the right (which is a simple option to enable). After I turn on the histogram, I then want to turn off the display of the points used to make the histogram. There is also an option to do this. Then comes the problem....Having turned off the display of the plot points, I want to "shrink" the window that formerly held the plot points down a zero width window. That too is easy to do (set the horizontal width of the window to zero), but it creates bizarre problem: The category labels are hidden but still exist and they create display problems because those hidden category labels have a non-zero size to them. This was never a problem in JMP 10, but JMP 11 has this problem and I can't figure out how to get around it.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanx

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jules

Hi nocaltim,

Can you provide a screenshot of the display problem you're experiencing? I just followed your steps in JMP 11.2 and came up with the outputs below.

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Is there another step I need to follow in order to reveal the display problem? Please let me know and I'll be happy to help you figure out a solution.

Julian

nocaltim

Hello-

Thank you for the prompt reply. And, I can already see a partially better understanding of my problem from your attempt to replicate. You did the steps correctly to re-create the Oneway plot – except for one detail that I omitted.

In my case, I have, say, 2 or 3 continuous variables such as “Cost” and “Complexity” for which I am trying to make Oneway plots (in the example below, using “Type A” and “Type B” categories for my “DesignType” category variable). Rather than create, say, three separate windows of Oneway plots, I just select all three columns simultaneously and then create a group window where each continuous variable (i.e., Column of data) gets plotted in a Oneway format against the category variable.

The above works fine, until I shrink the points window to zero horizontal width (to leave only the histograms as desired). When I do this, the Oneway plots suddenly space out vertically, as suggested in my screenshot below. And when I go to copy-and-paste them into, say, Power Point, I’ve got a these large figures that I have to manually trim to size.

Now, here’s what’s interesting….If I do a single Oneway plot at a time (i.e., make three Oneway plot windows instead of a group), then the space below the Oneway plot is not affected and the plot figure remains compact.

Any ideas?

Thanx!

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jules

When you change the frame size are you broadcasting your command to resize everything at once? When I broadcast the command to change the frames all at once I get an even more problematic display!

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Clearly the histograms are inheriting the frame size change, which isn't necessarily wrong, but certainly isn't helpful. I can report this. But, when I change the frame size one by one, I can get this to work:

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I tried this with multiple Ys, and when using a By variable. As long as I do it one by one it seems to work for me.

Julian

jules

I should add, this worked on 11.2 on the mac, and 11.0 on windows. I wonder if there is something peculiar about those data in particular. I can't see why that would be the case, but does the issue occur on different datasets?

Julian

nocaltim

Well…No luck.

1. If I try resizing the windows one at a time, I still have same problem, so apparently I can’t replicate that part of your experience.

2. This problem has happened now with every data set I’ve attempted to work with (I only upgraded to JMP 11 a few days ago).

I am left to conclude that if this is not a bug in the software, then it is a most unwelcome “feature.”

Thank you for your help.