scatterplot improvement
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:07 pm
Hello all,
I've started teaching undergrad stats with jamovi and it's going pretty well and I'm generally very happy that my department has made the switch. I hope this is the right place to bring up a potential improvement.
I am teaching correlation this week and as far as I can see there is no easy way to produce a scatterplot matrix apart from the Correlation Matrix menu under Regression. But one can't remove the regression line and the error bars. The reason I would like to turn these off is because I don't want the students to get distracted, before they learn what these are. And in actual research, it's possible that one wants to display a scatterplot matrix without these elements.
There is also no way to get multiple scatterplots outside of this menu. I mean, if I wanted to produce multiple scatterplots at once (and not necessarily as a matrix, but just as separate images), I don't see any way. In JASP for instance, there is an option called "scatter plots" under descriptives that does this. And it's possible to turn off the regression line.
There is of course the scatr module but there, too, you have to drag the variables into the x- and y-axes and produce one scatterplot at a time. You can't select 5 variables and produce scatterplots for all possible pairs.
So, maybe this can be an improvement for scatterplots; i.e., being able to produce multiple separate scatterplots by selecting more than 2 variables at once and having the option to not have the regression line and error bars in such plots.
cheers!
P.S. the jjstatsplot module has just come to my attention but I think it has the same problem: No way to get multiple scatterplots from one menu. By the way, I'm not sure if we should refrain from making a feature/improvement request for core jamovi if there is already a module that has the requested feature/improvement. Is core jamovi trying to incorporate features found in modules or is the strategy more to let the community extend jamovi with these modules?
I've started teaching undergrad stats with jamovi and it's going pretty well and I'm generally very happy that my department has made the switch. I hope this is the right place to bring up a potential improvement.
I am teaching correlation this week and as far as I can see there is no easy way to produce a scatterplot matrix apart from the Correlation Matrix menu under Regression. But one can't remove the regression line and the error bars. The reason I would like to turn these off is because I don't want the students to get distracted, before they learn what these are. And in actual research, it's possible that one wants to display a scatterplot matrix without these elements.
There is also no way to get multiple scatterplots outside of this menu. I mean, if I wanted to produce multiple scatterplots at once (and not necessarily as a matrix, but just as separate images), I don't see any way. In JASP for instance, there is an option called "scatter plots" under descriptives that does this. And it's possible to turn off the regression line.
There is of course the scatr module but there, too, you have to drag the variables into the x- and y-axes and produce one scatterplot at a time. You can't select 5 variables and produce scatterplots for all possible pairs.
So, maybe this can be an improvement for scatterplots; i.e., being able to produce multiple separate scatterplots by selecting more than 2 variables at once and having the option to not have the regression line and error bars in such plots.
cheers!
P.S. the jjstatsplot module has just come to my attention but I think it has the same problem: No way to get multiple scatterplots from one menu. By the way, I'm not sure if we should refrain from making a feature/improvement request for core jamovi if there is already a module that has the requested feature/improvement. Is core jamovi trying to incorporate features found in modules or is the strategy more to let the community extend jamovi with these modules?