InspireData™ Quick Start Tutorial
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1. alear Selection The plot is now divided into sections The icons are rearranged Here s what your data looks like now m come Ou WF Wake Process 20 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Subdivide a Pie plot You can split your icons into multiple pies which you can compare side by side For example if you wanted to see if there was a significant difference between males and females regarding ease in waking up you could move the males into one pie and the females in another 1 On the lower left corner of the workspace click the Plot Options button then select the multiple horizontal pies option amp An X axis appears beneath the pie 2 Click the X Axis label and select Gender m ie Ow Mi Wake Process aal Gender There is an appreciable difference in ease in waking up between males and females A higher percentage of boys report that waking up is hard for them Save a document Save your document on a regular basis To save a document for the first time or to save a document you ve already saved using the current file name use the Save command 1 On the File menu choose Save 2 If necessary navigate to the folder in which you want to save the document 3 Click the Save button You ll open this document again in Lesson 3 You can give it a name such as My Sleep Survey in order to find it easily Note All InspireData documents are automatically saved with an IDF extension2. Pick the method that you like best How we organized the tutorial Step by step instructions lead you through creating a table plotting data presenting a slide show and more Each of the four lessons introduces you to InspireData s unique features When you finish the tutorial you will be ready to collect manipulate and analyze data on your own 2 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Lesson One Introduction to Plot View In this lesson you ll open a database containing information about the sleep habits of a group of students You ll learn to do the following e Start InspireData e Open a database e Quick introduction to Table View e Switch to Plot View e Show and change icon labels e View record details e Create a Venn plot e Add a Venn loop e Add color to further represent meaning e Increase text size for elements in Plot View e Create a Stack plot e Show the mean for each level e Create an Axis plot e Mark items of interest e Create a Box plot in an Axis plot e Create a Pie plot e Subdivide a Pie plot e Save a document InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Start InspireData To start InspireData on a computer running Windows e Click the Start button point to Programs and click InspireData The InspireData Starter screen opens To start InspireData on a Macintosh computer e Open the InspireData folder from the location you installed it ideally Applications then double click the InspireDat
3. 40 hard alarm none L THIF 08 00 so so alarm small M 15 M 07 15 hard alarm medium The fields in the table show data that was collected about the students The example contains numeric data age and hours of sleep and text data student gender ease of wake process how a student wakes up and what size breakfast they eat You will learn more about adding records creating fields and importing data into a table in a later lesson Now it s time to see how Table View and Plot View are integrated by exploring the data from our sample database in Plot View 6 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Switch to Plot View In Plot View you can visually analyze data e To view your data in Plot View click the Plot View button on the Toolbar The icons you see below represent each record from the Sleep Survey table The first time you switch from Table View to Plot View icons are plotted freely and are moveable Using InspireData s plotting tools you can arrange the icons in many informative ways Here s what the data looks like now Icon b L ae BLS eo m emy Foe T InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Show and change icon labels Labels help you identify the icons You can choose the values from any of the fields in your database as labels 1 On the Toolbar click the Label button 3 1 1 to turn on labels 2 Experiment by choos
4. ID 44475 1715 Pine as Tee Ende Suvey Dere Those who participate in your e Survey will need the Survey ID To end your e Survey you must know the Owner ID Since this is the only location where the Owner ID is given to you it is a good idea to print this dialog To print it click on the Print This Text button at the bottom of the dialog You may also end your e Survey directly from this dialog by choosing the End e Survey button 3 Click Done 32 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Take an e Survey To take an e Survey you must have access to the Internet To take an e Survey e Navigate to http esurvey inspiredata com using your web browser then enter your Survey ID and click Start Start When you click start your e Survey opens as shown InspireData iiai Da aia F ksa ti B p g a rp E p a Pir a i me Atp bia poe es ej ar Fe ee Once you have filled out the survey click Submit to save the data All participants who fill out the e Survey and click Submit will have their records added to your database To print your e Survey see Printing a Survey or e Survey in the User s Manual InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 33 End an e Survey You can end an e Survey immediately after it is created by clicking End e Survey in the same MD you use to create one as shown ea ara daaa een aki a ha amp Garros mhae The Survey ID wi be required to fil out the survey Phoase use a web br
5. Toolbar click the Add Field button 2 2 Type Hours Sleep to name the new field 3 Add another new field and name it Wake Process Add a new record More records can be created quickly and easily e To create a new record click the Add Record button F on the Toolbar Of With your cursor in the last cell of the bottom row press Tab InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 23 Define fields Choosing the kind of data you will put into a field allows you to enter data more quickly Fields can be restricted to numbers only text and numbers dates or true false values The type of data used for a field is called the field type Field Type menu Field heading Text abe Format Validation 1 Select the field named Student by clicking on its field heading On the Toolbar click the Field Type menu Undefined and select Text Select the next field Age by clicking on its field heading On the Toolbar click the Field Type menu and select Number Select the next field Gender by clicking on its field heading On the Toolbar click the Field Type menu Select Text because this is also a text field Select the next field Hours Sleep by clicking on its field heading eo Se a SS OU On the Toolbar click the Field Type menu and select Number Add the following fields by using the Add field button HEN and continue to select the field type for each one of them e How Do You Wake Up Field type Text e Breakfa
6. a Bar chart by clicking the Bar chart button Ms in the lower left hand corner of the workspace Create a parallel Stack plot You can divide your Stack plot using different characteristics To see the relationship between the length of time a student sleeps and the wake process for example you could use a parallel Stack plot 1 On the lower left corner of the workspace click the Plot Options button ie then select the horizontal parallel stack option z A Y axis appears on the left side of your stack plot Click the Y Axis label and select Wake Process 1 ioe Ow Bi Gak a m Wikis Pioceid F iT m reaa a gt hi a pa mh pe Ca el cay E H E oe 5 Bu ii blah Hour Sleep dar ii The pattern shows that the fewer hours a student sleeps the harder it 1s to wake up Since the icons representing male students are now yellow and the icons representing female students are purple we can quickly see that boys find it harder to wake up after getting fewer hours of sleep than girls do 14 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Show the mean for each level Now that you have two distinct ranges of data you can display the average or mean which in this case would be the average or mean hours of sleep for each group e Click the Options button next to the X axis near the lower left side of the workspace then select Show Mean k Show Me
7. calculate the mean height for each growing condition 1 On the Toolbar click the Compute button to turn on computations The question marks that appear on your plot show where the calculations will be displayed when you finish specifying what data you want to calculate Choose a calculation to perform Display computed data Choose a field to compute Operation 2 Click the Operation button on the Toolbar then select Mean 3 To specify which field to calculate the mean of click the Field button on the Toolbar then select Height w Daman a a He F Se ee ee Pay E E Gh gt Liters o Gd eet ia Bi sewn P a Bisse L se Fite 20 o T ond rs IED E 3s gt i gt iG i3 at i 270 6 5 080 4 706 15 06 0 6 az a gt oe t t EE the gt a 444 Se ge gs cg ss ss 1 a hit l Fi wer a a ice oF yE ai a Ly ae i St Fad NES F Dendin LE a I fe D LG e em ee SS Be Hagn Ee Because this plot includes time series data you can use the series playback controls to display the height of the plants on different days As you move through the different days computations will be updated automatically 48 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Congratulations You ve finished the InspireData tutorial Now that you know the basics of this versatile tool you re ready to explore further on your own
8. default but you can also group the records together to make trends in the data easier to see For example you can group together records based on growing conditions 1 On the lower left corner of the workspace click the Plot Options button g choose Group Lines and then select Median Now instead of every record being shown eight lines represent the median values of the plants in each of the eight growing conditions nee Adb Bit Bia Bi E B ms ms Height od iz i 2 l i Height Dry i i Ig Te econ to mey Dam om 2 Click the Plot Options button again choose Group Lines then select Mean and Standard Deviation 44 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial This adds areas of translucent shading to the group lines representing the standard deviation for the plants in each of the growing conditions Camii D Lie of tates Ein Gram of Gok aD Leer oe iiy Ei pan efile iay ft a P P Change plot colors Customizing the colors used to represent your data helps you clearly differentiate one set of records or lines from another In the current plot each grouping is colored according to its growing condition InspireData makes it easy to change the colors of these items 1 On the Legend click the red square to the left of No Light A menu with color choices appears Condition O 1 Liter of Water E 1 2 Gram of Salt 2 Liters of Water 24 Hours of Light E Hours of Light E Control aa iat No Wate
9. his age group 2 On the Toolbar click the Mark button e m oie u i 1a Icon of student who sleeps more than others his age 1a C i ET W JE eri a7 Cah a0 WEE cen h Cer 10 i ark Himne Fisk ieee Since the icon is now marked with a box you can easily identify and track it as you make changes to the plot Create a Box plot in an Axis plot A Box plot visually represents the median the range and the quartiles of a set of numeric data In our example you could use a box plot to look at the distribution of the students ages in the sleep survey To create a box plot on your sleep survey pap 3 Click on the X axis label and select Age Click on the Y axis and select Clear Selection On the Plot menu choose Box Plot Or Select Box Plot Options from the Plot menu and choose Add numeric labels to box plots InspireData Quick Start Tutorial This will display the 5 number summary minimum quartile 1 median quartile 3 and maximum on your box plot m ode Oe Ei WY Axia a 17 18 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Multiple box plots can be used to show differences in a numeric field across a second categorical Text or True False field In this example you could examine differences in age across gender e Click on the Y axis and select Gender from the list of fields Now your plot looks like thi
10. you save a document InspireData saves each plot mode s last state When you switch to the Venn plot the plot you created in Lesson One will be preserved Click the Capture Slide button amp on the Slide Sorter A new slide appears in the Slide Sorter On the Toolbar click the Axis Plot button Click the Capture Slide button on the Slide Sorter A second slide appears in the Slide Sorter m Gmie Ow MF eS 1 0 ai f gt gt 5 m H Hows Sleep obo 38 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Name a slide InspireData automatically creates a name for new slides based on the fields you assigned to axes on the plot but you can rename a slide at any time 1 Click the Slide Options button on the second slide then select Rename from the menu that appears 2 Type Hours of sleep vs Age into the text box that appears then click OK to rename the slide Renaming a slide does not change the content or order of the slide in the Slide Sorter Reorder a slide You can move slides up and down the Slide Sorter to change their order 1 Click and drag the Hours of Sleep slide to the top of the Slide Sorter When you move a slide the other slides will move to make room for the slide you are dragging indicating where the moved slide will be placed 2 Release the mouse button Add notes To capture thoughts about the data and communicate finding
11. For example you can combine the two growing conditions with varying amounts of water into one supercategory called or More Liters of Water 1 Click on the Axis label of the X axis and choose Condition 2 Click on the Y axis and choose Height 3 Click the 2 Liters of Water category label and drag it onto the 1 Liter of Water category label Click here ooeee ope ae f2 Gram of Salt 7 Liters of Water then drag here to combine categories When a green box appears around the 1 Liter of Water label release the mouse button Use the dialog box to give a name to your supercategory such as 7 or More Liters of Water 4 Click OK The 2 Liters of Water and 1 Liter of Water categories have now been combined into a Supercategory E gne pem o dD gt EE irn iihi Eirig i l F i wot 6666 4606 oe t 6404 iar ii Liri Gran See M Hari ot Lee a Hear Sf Le Cerin hm Lae Pa Yii a conditi l y saote tu m wH ee 2 Supercategory InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 47 You can easily return the plot to the way it looked before you created the supercategory 1 Click the small diamond gt next to the 1 or More Liters of Water category label 2 Choose Dissolve Supercategory Compute summary data You can calculate summary data for your plots including count total mean median and smallest or largest data points For example in the plant growth plot you could
12. InspireData Quick Start Tutorial This tutorial is a great starting point for learning how to use InspireData The four lessons are in small manageable sections so you can learn the basics quickly Plan on about an hour from start to finish You use InspireData the same way you use most Windows and Macintosh programs For example you use the mouse to drag objects and to select text You also click and double click as well as enter information using the keyboard If you re not comfortable doing these things take a moment now and refer to the user s guide that came with your computer Conventions we use This tutorial has instructions for both Windows and Mac OS based computers The Windows instructions appear first and the Mac OS instructions immediately afterward Here are two typical examples e Use the CTRL Windows or Command Macintosh key e Press Enter Windows or Return Macintosh When you re asked to enter specific text the text you are to type appears in bold When instructions refer directly to using a menu item button or other interface element the name of that element also appears in bold InspireData offers many ways to do things from toolbar buttons to menu commands to keyboard shortcuts but this tutorial usually shows only one way to do a task This makes it easier to learn the task Check the InspireData Help system and detailed directions about features in the InspireData User s Manual for alternatives
13. Lesson Two Working in Table View InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 21 In Table View you can directly enter data you have collected import data that you acquire from outside sources like web sites and have students enter their own data through the use of surveys Once you have captured the data you can modify the formatting and even create new data using formulas Working in Table View you ll learn to do the following Create a new database Rename a field Add a new field Add a new record Define fields Validate data entered into fields Enter record details Reorder fields Change the default icon Import a custom icon Create a Survey Conduct a Survey Create an e Survey Publish an e Survey Take an e Survey End an e Survey View e Survey results View the e Survey Log Create a new database In this lesson you ll create your own simple sleep survey database 1 2 If you quit InspireData after the last lesson launch the program From the InspireData Starter screen click New InspireData will open in Table View 22 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Rename a field When you create a new table you will see that fields are named Field 1 Field 2 and so on You can rename the fields 1 Click on Field 1 and type Student 2 Click on Field 2 and type Age 3 Click on Field 3 and type Gender Add a new field New tables start with three fields but you can always add more if you need to 1 On the
14. a icon The InspireData Starter screen opens 4 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Open a database InspireData has more than 100 content rich and template databases included You ll begin the tutorial by opening one of the many available databases e Click the Databases button Double click the More folder and then open Sleep Survey InspireData Starter 7 By subject area Ope im New Open Learn To Use fe Download survey GOT cisssvoom projects f egus i pop InspireData e Terman 1 5 Quit The Sleep Survey database opens in Table View InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 5 Quick introduction to Table View A table consists of fields columns and records rows The table for the example database shown below contains information about the sleep and morning habits of a group of students Each record represents the sleep habits of a single student Names here have been replaced by letter codes to protect anonymity Field Hours Sleep Wake Process How Do You Wake Up Breakfast A 14 F 09 00 easy naturally medium B 12 F 08 30 easy naturally small Record 15 M 08 00 so so person small D 17 F 07 15 easy alarm small E i7 M 07 30 hard alarm lar ge F 1AE 09 30 easy naturally lar ge c 11 M 08 30 so so person medium H 16 M 08 40 so so person mediumi gt 16M 07 30 hard alarm none J 11 M 09 15 easy naturally none k 16 F 06
15. ame and the Survey ID e From the File menu choose View e Survey Log e Survey Log Tuesday July 10 2007 10 47 AM a Database Sleep Survey urvey ID 177928 Tuesday July 10 2007 20 AM Database Sleep Data Survey ID 980129 Thursday June 28 2007 6 16 AH Database Sleep Data The most recent surveys are listed first 36 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Lesson Three Presenting with a Slide Show A Slide Show is a great way to document and present work Each slide captures a live view of the data which means that you can continue to change and work with the captured plots when viewing your slides In this lesson you will build a slide show as you learn to do these things e Capture a slide e Name a slide e Reorder a slide e Add notes e Make changes to a slide e Delete a slide e Present a Slide Show InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 37 Capture a slide When you capture a slide you re saving a plot which you can then retrieve at any time and use in a slide presentation of your data 1 Open the My Sleep Survey document you saved in Lesson One Your document should open in Plot View with the two pie charts displayed If it does not click the Plot View button on the Toolbar to switch to Plot View On the right side of the Toolbar click the Slide Sorter button Gi The Slide Sorter will open on the right side of the screen On the Toolbar click the Venn Plot button When
16. de the loop 9 10 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Add a Venn loop Now you ll add a second Venn loop 1 2 3 4 In the lower left corner of the workspace click the Add Loop button La In the equation click on the word Field Select Wake Process Click on the operator Select Click on the question mark Select hard Records are sorted into multiple categories Where the two loops overlap you can see that the students who get fewer than 8 hours of sleep have a harder time waking up Students who do not match the characteristics you have set in this case the students who get more than 8 hours of sleep and don t have a hard time waking up remain outside of both loops Here s what the data looks like now Wake Proceed hard InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 11 Add color to further represent meaning Color adds another layer of visual detail and meaning to your plot Choose any field in your plot to use as a basis for coloring Colors are assigned to your icons based on the values in the field you select e On the Toolbar click the Color by Field button and select Gender At the top of the plot a legend shows how colors have been assigned to the values Gender OM MF The icons of the boys are yellow the icons of the girls are purple Increase text size for elements in Plot View Use the Text Size control button in the Toolbar to increase the size of the text in notes and for ele
17. dian 07 00 Upper Bounds 18 3 y m Lower Bounds 010 Opti Cape Create an Axis plot Axis plots let you create scatterplots which are a great way to find and investigate correlations For example you could see if there was a relationship between amount of sleep and age 1 On the Toolbar click the Axis Plot button W The icons won t move until you assign fields to the X and Y axes 2 Click the X Axis label and select Hours Sleep 3 Click the Y Axis label and select Age The plot shows that older students tend to get less sleep than younger students H ome Mi it n ie Ca ifs JET La DH me n a E Wiis Hours Sleep i InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 15 When you create an Axis plot where both axes are numeric and continuous data you can display the Line of Best Fit as shown below or a Line Graph To do either one click the button in the lower left corner of the workspace Correlation Copie 0 ha fener Ou iF r 2g aod ti ig Hours Sleep Click to display Line of Best Fit or Line Graph 16 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Mark items of interest Some icons might have the highest or lowest values for a particular field or seem to defy the general trend You can mark these icons and track them through your plots For example in this plot you can see that one student gets a lot of sleep compared to others his own age 1 Click on the icon of the student who seems to get more sleep than others in
18. elect it it will turn orange when selected Type A as an identifier for the first student Press Tab to move to the next cell Type 14 under Age Tab to the Gender field Type F 4 Tab to the Hours Sleep field Type 9 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 25 5 Continue to add sample data to the remaining fields and records using the table below as a guide Student Age Gender Hours Sleep Wake Process How Do You Wake Up Greaktast 4 14 F o easy naturally medium B 12 F 7 easy naturally small c 15 M 6 50 50 person small Increase text size for elements in Table View You can increase the size of the text in cells and the notes field as well as field names using the text size control in the top toolbar This is especially useful when you are working in a group around a computer monitor or when using a projector 1 On the Toolbar click the Text Size button Am 2 Choose which of the three sizes works best to view the table Reorder fields To change the order of the fields in your table click on their field headers and drag them e Click on the field heading of the Age field then drag it to the right of the Gender field Watch the carat mark as you drag so you can place the field where you want it Simply release the mouse button to place it Ji ae Hours Sleep Change the default icon Changing or customizing the icons that appear in your table adds further meaning to your plots InspireData offer
19. ere will be visible at the top of the web page Make any modifications to your questions or required answers as needed Click OK Publish an e Survey Once your e Survey has been published it will be available as a form to fill out on a web site e Survey respondents will need to know the web URL and the Survey ID to take your survey Respondents simply use their web browser to load and fill out the e Survey To publish an e Survey 1 From the Table menu choose Publish e Survey 2 When the dialog box appears click the Publish button Publish e Survey r nous a the amp Survey website The survey can be filed out with a web browser You must give people the e Survey D for them to take the survey cane _coea_ Aaa InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 31 When the second dialog box appears as shown below you will see both a Survey ID and an Owner ID for your e Survey e Survey Published xj Your survey database was published to the Survey webeite The amp Survey ID val be required to fil cut the survey Please use a web eoweaer to vied the website https esunvey inspiradis oom Results may be socessed from the Inspre Date Suerte screen of by aalecting Open e Sunvey Database free the Fie man IMPORTANT Print this ted The Owner ID wil be required when you choose to end the Survey iD Date Tuesday July 10 2007 10 05 AH Humbers Deteabase Sleep Survey Survey ID 44475 mer
20. es can still be downloaded even after the e Survey has ended and will remain available for a period of time determined by Inspiration Software View e Survey results The results of an e Survey can be viewed at any time by opening the database with InspireData Once data has been downloaded it is contained in a new database which can be modified in any way and saved You can do this even when participants are still adding records to your e Survey Each time you or anyone else downloads the data a new InspireData file is created Plots and slides present in the database at the time it was published will also be available in addition to e Survey records When you no longer want contributions to the database you can end your e Survey To view results of an e Survey 1 On the InspireData Starter screen click on the e oun yey button InspireData Starter xj Databases By subject area j Open Learn To Use e Survey i Js Download survey no Eea projects oe documentation InspireDat a ersin 1 5 2 Enter the Survey ID and click Open InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 35 Open e Survey xj Enter the Survey ID for the e Survey Database you want to open Suvey D View the e Survey Log Every time an e Survey is published it is recorded in the e Survey log This log is associated with the user currently logged on to the computer The log contains the date the e Survey was published the database n
21. ing different fields to use for a label Click the Label Options button M on the Toolbar The Label Options menu appears displaying a list of the field names from Table View Student Age Gender w Hours Sleep Wake Process How Do You Wake Up Breakfast Formula 3 Select the field you want to display and see what happens to your plot 4 Click the Label button again to turn the labels off 7 8 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial View record details Each icon represents one record in the database e Double click on an icon A window displaying all of the data for that record will appear Record D Student Be eee ee meer alarm Breakfast small InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Create a Venn plot With Venn plots you can compare and analyze relationships between sets of data InspireData lets you create Venn plots with up to three loops 1 On the Toolbar click the Venn Plot button EA A Venn loop appears with Field in the corner of the loop Use this equation to define which icons you want in the loop Operator 2 Click on the word Field and select Hours Sleep from the menu that appears 3 Click on the Operator which is currently an equals sign then select lt from the menu that appears 4 Click on the question mark Type 8 00 into the dialog then click the Accept button v Only those icons meeting the criteria fewer than 8 hours sleep per night now appear insi
22. ions you d like to make required then click the Required checkbox When a question is set as required the words This value is required will appear below the question in the Survey Respondents will not be able to submit their record until this field is filled out Click OK Stadent Sleep Survey _ xj Edit survey prompts for Student Sleep Survey Fe Alew uder be select renani sosta D ren tend fi Ehe a sur Sudet code letter Haur Sheep hamisi He many ra de you shige on a neg ii viae Proesa how Do You Wake Up Test Hore do you wake up in the moming Ham Penson Haiuasiy Berdas Taal What mie betes do pou eat ox _ canoa_ Be sure to launch your survey after you have finished editing it to make sure it appears the way you want it to appear Note The Invitation text applies to e Surveys only InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 29 Launch a Survey Once you have your Survey set up the way you like you can start collecting data 1 On the Table menu choose Launch Survey a Student Sleep Survey Tea wale i rere How many hours do you sheep on an average right 7 Tis pi A ET Tra is pour wake process feany had a Tea Flt 4 E How do you make up in fhe momng Alem Person Natu ol Tho Wed oll Feri What size breskfast do you eat Tea ski ol yA 2 Ask your participants to come to the computer one at a time 3 Instruct each participant to fill
23. ments in your plot Increasing the text size is especially useful when you are working in a group around a computer monitor or when using a projector 1 On the Toolbar click the Text Size button 2 Experiment with each of the three text size settings provided to see which one works best for your plot 12 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Create a Stack plot A Stack plot divides the values within one field into categories then organizes the icons that fall into each category into stacks The more records in a category the higher the stack Stack plots are useful for showing how many records share a particular characteristic L On the Toolbar click the Stack Plot button EA When you first switch to Stack plot mode the icons are arranged into one tall stack Once you assign a field to the axis the icons will move into separate stacks based on their values On the workspace click the Axis label of the X axis and select Hours Sleep Hours Sleep Wake Process How Do You Wake Up Breakfast l Formula Use the numbers on the left side of the plot to help count the icons in each stack Here s what the data looks like now m fade OM 6 ij cy gt 4 amp gt 0s 20 0 J aii n pi 34 oP on oer a ue s Hours Sleep Wir Ei Switch to Bar chart InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 13 You may switch to
24. o previous slide i L Go to next slide You can also present your slide show by clicking on each slide in the Slide Sorter However using the Slide Show Controls keeps the Slide Sorter hidden and makes more screen space available for your plots 40 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Lesson Four Plotting time series and more In this lesson you ll plot time series data and explore some of the many other plotting options available You ll learn to e Plot time series data e Add color to time series data e Group time series data e Change plot colors e Clear a plot e View previous plots e Add a plot title e Combine categories e Compute summary data InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 41 Plot time series data You can display and even animate data that changes over time time series data 1 On the File menu point to Open Database Choose Science then select Plant Growth The table contains data about plants in an experiment including growing conditions height measurements and so on Notice that the Height field contains subcolumns representing the number of days elapsed in the experiment Each subcolumn contains a measurement for a plant s height on that day This is the data that will be used to plot your time series Condition Number of Leaves on Day 23 E g 6 Wiborg CE Control 11 25 4 8 5 115 135 18 195 205 25 4 Warmer CE Contra a5 z 4 65 7 95 9 W 11 115 1 4 Warbherg CE Contra ga 16 35 am
25. out the form and click the Add Record button y when they are finished 4 After all of the participants have entered their data click the Close button 5 On the File menu choose Save to save your data Create an e Survey An e Survey allows you to collect data by publishing your database to a web site Respondents need not be in the same location and are able to add responses to your e Survey as long as they have a connection to the Internet It is not necessary to have InspireData installed in order to fill out an e Survey Once responses are complete you can download your database to InspireData and begin analyzing data To create an e Survey 1 On the Table menu choose Edit Survey 30 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 2 Click the Invitation text check box at the top of the dialog box Mande Shee P SUEY Edit survey prompts for Student Sleep Survey f Aiow Leper io saiad rescore cos Fe imetaion best 2 pura to fll cad toy e Gurey on ap habii for cur ciii roe many hours do you mrep on an meraga ngt Wane Process hat of your wpke process eaey_hard_o 25 Hem De Yeu Vinka Up Tid Hira gka pau waka up in h maming Ain T Pargan Maiuri Bresis Tas fia sire bens nat do you eat Type an invitation to participate in your e Survey such as Be sure to fill out my e Survey on sleep habits for our class When your e Survey has been published to the web and accessed by respondents the wording you type h
26. owser to vied the websile http euve unspredaig Com Results may be accessed from the inspreData Starter screen or by selecting Open e Survey Database from the File menu IMPORTANT Print then ted The Owner ID wall be required when you choose fo end the e Suver Tuesday July 10 2007 10 05 AM Sleep Survey bada7s B4ae75 1715 Emil the Surwey If you end it before data has been entered no entry will appear in the e Survey log If you have received all the data you need and want to stop accepting contributions to your e Survey you must end it from the File menu To end an e Survey 1 From the File menu choose End e Survey 2 Enter the Owner ID for the e Survey you want to end you were provided with the Owner ID when you originally set up your e Survey bse elas cde tea Elo 3 Click on the End e Survey button 4 When asked to confirm choose Yes to end the e Survey 34 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial confirm End e Survey x You are about to end the e Survey you just pub shed If you do so it wil be completely unavailable Are you sure you want to end the e Survey tilled Sleep Survey with Owner ID 844475 17157 e After the survey has ended no one will be able to add data to the e Survey even 1f they know the Survey ID However the database will still be available to download from the InspireData Starter screen using the e Survey button Note e Survey databas
27. p e 3g 1 W105 11 115 4 Warmer CE Control 0 05 4 amp 5 8 95 112 10 175 175 185 4 Warberg CE Cana Oo 05 2 5 455 T TS 5 g 12 145 4 Warberg EG 24 Hours of 1 4 47 a 65 89 Bad 103 105 105 112 2 Water EG 2d Hours of os 332 4 a 0 0 J o g E 0 J Amberg EG 2 Bours of in 468 T T5 i E E 1 a Water FG Fal Hears rel 145 a A AR 3 AS T rA A RA A7 a On the Toolbar click the Plot View button to switch to Plot View On the Toolbar click the Axis Plot button l On the lower left corner of the workspace click the Plot Options button and select Instant Plot Height by Day A new time series graph is created The Series Playback controls animate the time graph showing how the heights of the plants change over time and revealing correlations Series Playback controls _ ne e i h Haight g Comar Op cra 1g DECO tu m p y Dom aja 42 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Add color to time series data Because the plot you created shows all gray lines it s difficult to see what the data means However you can add color to your plot Now your plot looks like the one below Notice that you now have a legend at the top that defines the colors in the plot Leaend TT Comets 01 Liter pii aiar tS Oren of hat BF u AE a E w ee Eih ip Bicones gt Br Lge Bee te Lex InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 43 Group time series data Time series graphs display every record individually by
28. r 2 Select anew color to change the color of the grouping on the plot InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 45 Clear a plot When you clear a plot only the plot currently displayed on your screen 1s affected e On the Toolbar click the Clear button T The menu you see will give you options to change your settings o Clear this Plot maintains the plot type but clears the settings such as axis title etc To clear color click on Color by field and select No Coloring o Reset plotting returns the icons to a Free plot e Unmark All takes away labels colors and the marks around icons you have selected View previous plots You can jump backward or forward through your plots at any time just like you would with previously viewed pages in a web browser e On the Toolbar click the Back button to view your previously created plots and click the Forward button to return to the most recently created plot Add a plot title You can add a title to your plot at any time 1 On the Plot menu select Plot Title 2 Type Growth Comparison by Treatment Condition 3 Click the Accept button WV to add the title to your plot To make changes to an existing title click directly on the title in your plot and type your changes Be sure to click the Accept button to keep your changes 46 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Combine categories You might want to group your data by combining two related categories into one
29. rt InspireData can import most types of image files including GIF and JPG 4 Click the Open button 5 Click OK on the Icon Editor Note Use the Icon Editor tools to further customize an imported image Create a Survey A Survey allows you to create new records and enter data for those records using an onscreen form similar to one you might find on a web page Using the sleep survey as an example students can answer the questions you have set up for your fields The Survey is especially useful when you have a group of people who aren t familiar with InspireData With a Survey they can enter data directly into your document You can set up a computer as a Survey station and let students take turns filling out the form When a Survey is completed its data is added as a record to your database 1 On the Table menu select Edit Survey 2 Click the Use custom title checkbox 28 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Type Student Sleep Survey into the title box If you want the respondents to have the ability to add their own individual icon click the Allow user to select record icons checkbox The Question area of the form is automatically filled out with the field names If the field name is sufficient for the respondent to answer the question use the field name If not enter a complete question to guide participants in their responses InspireData allows you to use up to 256 characters for a question Locate the quest
30. s i Cie Le F 4 x g i E rz l gt 110 7 Age 2 i 17 0 Although both males and females fall in the same range of ages the plot shows that the males in the middle half are older than the females in the middle half Applying the IQR method to a box plot IQR or Interquartile range is an alternative method for drawing the whiskers of a Box plot Rather than extending out to the extremes of the data the whiskers have a length that is proportional to usually one and one half times the interquartile range The interquartile range is the difference between the upper and lower quartiles To apply the IQR method to a box plot 1 On the Plot menu choose Box Plot Options 2 Choose the IQR radio button 3 If desired change the multiplier by typing in the text box next to the IQR radio button 4 Click OK InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 19 Create a Pie plot Pie plots show how many records in your table share a common attribute The pie s sections are determined by the values in the field you assign to the pie and the icons fall accordingly into these sections The higher the number of records in a section the larger the pie section 1s 1 On the Toolbar click the Pie Plot button OS There aren t any sections because you haven t assigned a field to the pie yet 2 Click the Select Field button above the circle then select Wake Process
31. s use notes 1 On the Toolbar click the Note button The Notes area appears at the bottom of your screen 2 Type your comments about the slide Make changes to a slide You can update a slide at any time after the slide has been captured Always update your slides after adding or editing a note otherwise the changes you made will be lost e Click the Slide Options button on the Hours of Sleep vs Age slide then select Update Slide from the menu that appears Update Slide Hours of sleep vs A Delete Slide Hours of sleep vs A Rename Slide Hours of sleep vs A Updating a slide will overwrite the old slide If you want to keep both your old slide and the changes you ve made create a new slide by clicking the Capture Slide button on the Slide Sorter InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 39 Delete a slide You can delete a slide at any time 1 Click on the slide you want to delete 2 Press the Delete key Present a Slide Show Slides are saved with your work when you save your document When you are ready to present your slides use the Slide Show controls e On the Slide Show menu choose Start Slide Show The first slide in the Slide Sorter displays the Slide Show Controls If you click the Next Slide button you will see the second slide on the controls and so on for all of your slides Current slide number O Slide Show Controls Go to first slide lq l 2 i Go to last slide Go t
32. s a library of more than 120 icons Icons selected in Table View will also represent each record when it appears in Plot View m Default loon oA B c p To change the default icon to a custom icon Record Icons 1 Double click the icon in the top left corner of the table the default icon 26 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial The Icon Editor appears Tools Canvas CR E EJ F s Preview in Color palette o D a Z More colors RZ a Copy Paste 3 g Clear Commands Revert hag r Icon Library Cox Cancel gt M a 2 Select a different icon from the Icon Library or use the paint and draw tools in the Icon Editor to customize your selection 3 Click OK to make the new icon your default icon for the entire table All of the existing records with the old default icon will be updated and all new records will use the new default icon Note If you want to return to the original version of the icon click Revert InspireData Quick Start Tutorial 27 Import a custom icon You can import a photograph or graphic from a drawing program or web browser and use it as an icon Imported graphics are automatically resized to fit into the space available on the canvas of the Icon Editor To add a custom icon to Student A 1 Double click on Student A s icon to open the Icon Editor 2 Click the Import button Hew Database 2 3 Locate and click on the file you want to impo
33. st Field type Text Now any data you enter into these fields will be consistent with the field types you selected Note You can edit cell data in either the text entry field on the toolbar or in the cell itself If you make a mistake while entering text just select the words you want to change by dragging your cursor over them and then typing your correction 24 InspireData Quick Start Tutorial Validate data entered into fields You can control the data entered into fields using Validation settings For example you can use the Validation option to create a drop down list of choices allow numbers only within a certain range or specify the number of characters allowed for a field as well as other validation choices You could for example limit the age range for people in the sleep survey to secondary students only 1 Click on the field heading for Age a ft e o a Veber i k Student Age kee a Hours Sleep Wake Process How Do You Wake Up Breakfast 2 Click on the Validation button 3 A dialog box will appear Click the radio button next to In range 4 Inthe from field type 11 and in the to field type 17 then click OK Validation Settings w x Validate entries for field Age to be Now your Age field will accept only numbers between 11 and 17 Enter record details Now that your table is set up you can start entering data 1 Click in the top left data cell to s
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