What inspired this wish list request?
Graph Builder has a lot of possibilities to specify the markers, marker sizes and colors for each legend entry which is specified via Overlay and Color.
Sometimes, the user wants to "overwrite" some settings for a specific subset which could be not explicitly listed in the legend (e.g. special color for exluded data points).
At the moment, this is already possible by storing color and marker settings for some specific rows.
Unfortunately, the settings from Graph Builder overwrite the . In the example below, the selected data points keep their special markers because there is no specific marker setting defined in Graph Builder, but the color settings of the rows is just overruled by the color setting from Graph Builder.
Another disadvantage of storing the settings as : the settings stick to the specific row. If the table changes, wrong data points will be highlighted.
What is the improvement you would like to see?
As discussed in the DataViz Session @ DiscoverySummit 2023, an additional Overwrite Dropzone would be cool.
It can be used to overwrite the settings by Overlay and Color.
Why is this idea important?
The Overwrite Dropzone will give the users additional freedom in formatting their GraphBuilder Plots.
e.g. if excluded rows are switched on to be displayed in the plot, one could give the data points a faint grey color - to make then distinguishable from other data points which are not excluded.
Names Default to Here(1);
dt = Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp" );
dt << Clear Select << Select Rows( [5, 12, 15] ) <<
Colors( "Black" ) << Markers( "Star" );
gb = dt << Graph Builder(
Size( 437, 413 ),
Graph Spacing( 4 ),
Variables( X( :height ), Y( :weight ), Overlay( :sex ) ),
Elements( Points( X, Y, Legend( 1 ) ), Smoother( X, Y, Legend( 2 ) ) )
);
