Before you start trying to identify significant effects in your data and fitting models, interrogating your data by eye with plate-based heat maps can be extremely useful. Plate-based heat maps can show you if there are plate-based effects or patterns in your data.
Our eyes and brains are very good at picking out and identifying behaviours or trends in data. So rather than blindly trusting statistics, it is always worth looking at your data first to notice any obvious behaviours you would expect the statistics to be able to identify.
The Synthace Analyse Responses tool has a quick-view responses feature, allowing you to immediately and easily create plate based heat maps of your data.
In this tutorial you will learn how to:
Create plate-based heat maps of your data
Edit your plate based heat maps
Change the granularity of colouring
Getting started
How to edit plate based heat maps
Click on the Start Analysis button in a DOE Prepare Data tool to start a new analysis session.
The Quick-View Responses tab will load by default. Click on the Plate View tab.
By default a single plate map will already be shown.
Select the data you would like to plot on the heat map using the data dropdown.
Click on the Settings button under the plate map to select the colour granularity and click Save to update the heat map.
Adding or removing a plate based heat map
Click the Add Plate Layout button to add a new plate map.
Select the data you want to show using the data dropdown above the new plate map.
To remove a plate map, click on the Remove button under the plate map you no longer want.
Well done on making it to the end of this tutorial.
To learn how to plot x/y plots of your factors and data, click here.
To learn how to identify significant effects in your data, click here.