This feature gives you the option to enter your data in its original form, having Grapher do the work to split out the box plots into groups based on a category column. This feature allows you to:

• Break out one or more columns of data into groups

• Swap the grouping to be either by variable or by category

• Color code the boxes via intuitive color methods

• Save time crunching numbers in Excel!

 Specifically, these commands have been added/ modified:

• Home | New Graph | Statistical: Four new box plot variants have been added to the statistical plot ribbon. They can also be found in the Wizard.

  • Vertical Grouped Box Plot

  • Horizontal Grouped Box Plot

  • Notched Vertical Grouped Box Plot

  • Notched Horizontal Grouped Box Plot

• Property Manager | Plot | Data: Two new checkmarks have been added to change how the box plots read your data and how they are displayed

  • Data in groups

  • Group by categories

• Property Manager | Fill | Color method: Three ways to easily color your plots

  • Color by box

  • Color by category

  • Color by variable

To use this feature, all you need to start with is a data file with columns for quantitative data and categorical data.

There are three ways to access this feature:

1. Ribbon

   Home | New Graph | Statistical

   

    

2. Graph Wizard

   Click through as you would and choose one of the new Grouped Box Plot options on step two

   

3. Property Manager

   Start from an existing regular box plot and click “Data in groups”

   

Follow these steps to try it out:

1. Start with a regular Box Plot (New Graph | Statistical | Vertical Box Plot | Grouped Box Plots.xlsx):

    

   

   Default behavior simply creates box plots from single columns in the range specified between the First and Last variable

    

    

2. Property Manager | Plot | Data | Data in groups

   Make sure you specify the variable column range properly in the First and Last variable dropdowns. If the first and last columns match, that is the only column that gets grouped.

   
   

   Grapher has detected three unique values in the Category column and has grouped the data from Column B into three groups
   
   

3. Extend the range in Last variable to Column D :

   

   Now Grapher has plotted the same groupings for three different data variables

    

4. Toggle the Grouping order by selecting Property Manager | Plot | Data | Group by category

   

   Need to group your data differently? Toggle the order with the other new checkmark on the block!

    

5. Finally, bring your graph to life with classic Grapher color fill customization via Property Manager | Fill | Color method:

   

   Intuitively color your boxes to visually show your groupings

    

If you would like to try this new functionality, I would appreciate any feedback! We are looking for early feedback, to make sure it works as you expect it to and there are not any problems. These features are not yet included in the v22 Beta version accessible via MyAccount.

Instructions:

1. Download the software. You can download a preBeta version here: v23.0.103
   Note: This is the ONLY link where you can download the preBeta software. It is not available for download from MyAccount.
2. Once you download the installation EXE file, double click on it to begin installation. You can have Grapher and Grapher Beta/preBeta installed at the same time. If you already have a version of Grapher Beta installed though, this preBeta installation will replace it.

Licensing:

• If you already have an active single-user or concurrent-use Surfer license, please email your Support Code (found under File | License Info) to svivas@goldensoftware.com and we can extend the license to include this version. You may need to update your license or license server to read the updated information.

• If you do not have an active license, you can use this Grapher Beta version in the free Trial mode (good for 2 weeks).