Creating a Heatmap

The heatmap feature is useful to visualize in color the relationship between two variables in a dataset. It can be interpreted as a scatterplot that has been discretized into a given number of bins and where each color represents the number of observations falling within each bin. The heatmap can also be exported as an image file and saved to the local drive.

Screenshot

Note that it is important to manually save any time dependent information of the heatmap when exporting the image file.

Process Steps

  1. Select "Visualizations" in the main menu
  2. Select the "Heatmap" item
  3. A "Create a Heatmap" window will appear
  4. In the "Dataset" field, select the desired dataset from the Data panel you wish to visualize
  5. In the "X Variable" field, select the variable you wish to display on the horizontal axis
  6. In the "Y Variable" field, select the variable you wish to display on the vertical axis
  7. In the "Workspace" field, select the desired workspace tab to display the visualization
  8. Choose to display the visualization either in a new pane or to replace an existing visualization by selecting the corresponding pane
  9. Select "OK" to display the visualization