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==[[SOCR About Pages]] - SOCR Motion Charts==

[http://www.socr.ucla.edu/SOCR_MotionCharts/ SOCR Motion Charts] are developed by the [[SOCR| Statistics Online Computational Resource]]. Lead developers on this project are [http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jalaziz Jameel Al-Aziz], [http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jiecui Jenny Cui] and [http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~dinov Ivo Dinov].   Motion Charts allow the visualization of multivariate and high-dimensional data that has a temporal or longitudinal dimension. SOCR Motion Charts use categorical, ordinal, nominal, discrete and continuous types of variables. 

==Motion Chart Controls==
*Refer to the [[About_pages_for_SOCR_Chart_List | Complete List of SOCR Charts]] and the [[SOCR_Videos_Charts | Charts Video Tutorials]]
* [[SOCR_MotionCharts | SOCR Motion Charts Activities]]
* '''Graph Tab''':
** Right click to show the pop-up menu.
** To zoom in: Choose "ZoomIn" from the pop-up menu or hold on the left mouse button and focus on the area you want to zoom in and drag toward lower_right corner. 
** To zoom out: Choose "ZoomOut" from the the pop-up menu or hold on the left mouse button and drag toward upper_left corner.
** To change chart properties such as background color, Font, outline stroke:  Choose "Properties" from the pop-up menu and make the change to Title/Plot.
** To '''play''' the motion chart click Play button. You can also go back and forward using hte corresponging buttons. 
** Bring mouse over a blob, and/or double-click a blob, to get more information.

* '''Data Tab''':
** Paste data with first row representing the column headings
** Copy data from any spreadsheet (e.g., [[SOCR_Data]]).
* '''Mapping'''
** Map your time variable to K''Key'' and any other measurements you are interessted in visualizing to the other variables (''X'' and ''Y'' axes, ''color'', ''size'', etc.) ''Category'' is a label for discreminating different blobs (e.g., state, country, geographic unit, etc.)

<center>[[Image:SOCR_MotionCharts_Dinov_011709_Fig1.png|500px]]</center>

==See also==
* [[Help_pages_for_SOCR_Motion_Charts]]
* [[SOCR_MotionCharts | SOCR Motion Charts Summary]]
* [[SOCR_Data | SOCR Datasets]]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart Chart definition]

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