Data Desk 6.2
Interactive analyses and plots
Data Desk uses animation to help you see patterns you might miss in a static display. For example, you can easily link a sliding control to any part of an equation and see the effects of sliding the value as displays update. Data Desk automatically makes sliders to help you find optimal transformations of variables, to learn about the sensitivity of analyses to small shifts in variables and to assess the sensitivity of nonlinear regressions. You can easily build your own animations.
This interactivity extends to Data Desk's plots and tables as well. All related elements are linked together so that points selected in one display highlight in all other displays. Select bars in a bar chart or histogram, slices of a pie chart, rows, columns, or cells of a table, or any points in a scatterplot, rotating plot, dotplot, or boxplot, and the selected points highlight in all plots. Such consistency reveals relationships among several variables, identify clusters and subgroups and helps you to catch errors and outliers.
Colors and symbols are also linked across plots. Change the color or symbol of a group of points in one plot and the points change in all plots.