How to customize your graph

This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to edit and customize your graph. Once your graph has been automatically generated after selecting your graph family and adding data, you can modify and customize various elements without the need to recreate it. From adjusting your dataset to changing the appearance of your graph, axes, and legend, you'll learn how to make your graph suit your needs. Additionally, this article covers how to display statistical analyses directly on your graph, allowing for seamless updates and customization. Continue reading for a detailed breakdown of these features.

You can first access your graph by clicking on its name in the left-hand side panel.

How to modify your data

Click on "Dataset" on the left side of the screen:

This will take you to the dataset view. 

You can:

• Delete the entire default dataset by highlighting the column and pressing the delete button.

• Overwrite the default dataset by copying and pasting your own data.

Any changes you make in this view will be immediately reflected in your graph - you do not need to recreate your graph or create a new graph. 

How to customize your graph

Data appearance options

Click on your graph (for example, directly on the bars). This opens the Data Appearance Options menu.

Here, you can:

• Change the color palette and border color, as well as the border width and corner radius
• Adjust the spacing between groups, within groups, and the margin of the graph

Axis customization

Click directly on the x-axis or y-axis. This opens the axis customization menu. Regardless of the type of data, you’re able to adjust the axis line and all aspects of the axis label.

For continuous (numerical) axes, you are also able to adjust the axis scale. You can do this by manually entering the minimum or maximum values in the menu or pressing the plus/minus buttons.

Legend customization

If you click on the legend, you can freely move it around anywhere on the canvas. Clicking on the legend also opens the legend customization menu.

This menu allows you to:

• Adjust the position (left, right, top, bottom) 
• Text orientation and size
• Spacing 

Title & axis title customization

Clicking on the title or any of the axis titles will open up the corresponding customization menu. Here, you can:

• Toggle the title on or off
• Set styles and curves
• Set the font, size, spacing, color, and customization.

How to display an analysis 

Once you’ve run an analysis, you can select to display it on your graph. For ANOVAs, this only applies if you’ve selected pairwise comparisons (for example, the Tukey test).

After you’ve run the analysis, a new menu option will appear. This drop-down menu will contain all analyses you’ve run, and each drop-down option will contain the pairwise contrasts you selected for the given analysis:

By default, all significant comparisons will be preselected and automatically displayed on your graph. You can choose to add non-significant comparisons as well by checking the empty checkboxes.

You can customize the appearance of the way analyses are displayed by clicking on the significance lines. This will open the following menu:

You can customize how the significance is displayed, whether the line has brackets, and font and line size.

For more information on how to run an analysis, refer to this article: Performing a statistical analysis