Archive for February, 2012

Further improvements in 1.1.4

Friday, February 24th, 2012

The latest version adds a range of improvements:

  • Added lower and upper quartiles to Row Stats report tables.

    Quartiles

  • Box plots now start y-axis from just below the minimum y value of the data unless the content is close enough to the bottom of the graph to make it worth using 0 anyway.
    Y axis adjusted automatically  for box and whisker plots
  • Showing the percent sign in percent columns for report tables is now optional – which is good news for many dissertation students.

    Show (or hide) percentage symbols

  • SOFA now displays value labels sorted by the numerical version of numbers even if stored as text. So no more 1, 11, 2,3 etc in cases where people have stored the number as a Text data type.
  • Added some more valid US date formats using dot dividers.
  • New help button for importing data.
  • New help button to advise on how to make of flexible data filters.
  • English translations are handled better (no more messages about not having US English and using UK English instead etc).

Plus there are some useful bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug where getting observed values e.g. for chi square test, fell over when one field in pair had missing values while the other didn’t.
  • Fixed bug in calculation of upper and lower whiskers in box plots.
  • Single bar charts don’t show a bar title anymore – only needed if multichart.
  • Fixed bug which only changed variable definitions when the extra settings dialog was closed with OK and didn’t ever set it otherwise e.g. when changing the selected project.
  • Now copes with newer versions of matplotlib on Linux.
  • No longer stores empty strings as variable labels if user doesn’t enter a label.