SPSS Chart Templates Tutorial

SPSS chart templates are tiny text files that contain styling for charts. What are SPSS Chart Templates? Creating a Chart Template Applying Chart Templates Where do I Get Some Decent Chart Templates? Developing Your Own Chart Templates Practice Data File This tutorial walks you through creating and using chart templates. We’ll use bank.sav -partly shown below- throughout. […]

New Charts in SPSS 25: How Good Are They Really?

SPSS hasn’t exactly been known for generating nice charts, although you really can do so by using your own chart templates. SPSS 25, however, allows you to “create great looking charts by default!” This made me wonder: are the new charts really that great? The remainder of this article walks through the old and new looks for the big 5 charts in […]

SPSS – Stacked Bar Charts Percentages

Creating SPSS stacked bar charts with percentages -as shown above- is pretty easy. However, figuring out the right steps may take quite some effort and frustration. This tutorial therefore shows how to do it properly in one go. We encourage you to follow along on course_evaluation.sav. Part of these data are shown in the screenshot below. Example: Course Rating […]

SPSS – Set Chart Sizes Tool

This handy tool will set the exact sizes for one or many charts in the active output window. SPSS Set Chart Sizes Tool – How to Use it This tool requires SPSS version 18 or higher. For SPSS versions 14 through 17, you can use the syntax version from SPSS Set Chart Sizes with Syntax Tool. Before proceeding, […]

SPSS Bar Charts Tutorial

One of the best known charts is a simple bar chart containing frequencies or percentages. The easiest way to run it in SPSS is the FREQUENCIES command. This tutorial walks you through some options. We’ll use freelancers.sav throughout, part of which is shown below. Option 1: FREQUENCIES In most cases, a simple FREQUENCIES command is our best option because it takes multiple […]

SPSS Chart Templates

SPSS chart templates are files that tell SPSS how to style charts in the Output Viewer window. SPSS chart templates are easy to use and make your SPSS output look very professional. SPSS chart templates are files that tell SPSS how to style one, many or all charts that appear in the output viewer window. Examples […]