Dimension Reduction - Correspondence Analysis of a Square Table

Correspondence Analysis of Square Tables can be used to visualize tables of frequencies when the row and column labels are the same. See this blog post for more description and examples.

For more information about correspondence analysis in general, see Dimension Reduction - Correspondence Analysis of a Table.

How to Create

Add the object by selecting from the menu Anything > Advanced Analysis > Correspondence Analysis of a Square TableCreate > Dimension Reduction > Correspondence Analysis of a Square Table
In Inputs > Data source, specify a data source type for your analysis.

Examples

Example output: For points close together, you are able to move around the labels on the visualization.

Input Example: A table containing the same row and column headers in the exact same order showing either: 'n', 'Total %', 'Population', 'Correlation', or 'Index'.

Options

Input table The name of a table containing data to be analyzed. The row and column names should match exactly. The table should only contain a single statistic (e.g., Total %). The statistic that is shown first will be used in the analysis. For example, if you have a table showing Total % and Column %, then Column % will be used (whereas Total % is the more orthodox choice).

Note, that if the supplied table contains correlations (either a Q Table or an output from Correlation - Correlation Matrix), then 1 is automatically added to each value in the table. This ensures that all values are positive, so that the assumptions for Correspondence Analysis are met.

Paste or type table As an alternative to Input table, you can instead open up a blank spreadsheet into which you can manually enter or paste table.

Output: Either Scatterplot, Bubble Chart or Text

Bubble sizes: A numeric vector with names that are the same as the row names of the input table. If no vector is supplied then the diagonal of the input table will be used.

Supplementary A comma delimited list of labels which are not used to fit the low-dimensional space, but are plotted in the space.

Rows to ignore, Columns to ignore The names of any rows or columns to be removed from the table prior to analysis.

Horizontal dimension, Vertical dimension The dimensions to plot on the horizontal and vertical axes respectively. Since dimensions are output in order of decreasing variance, the first and second dimensions are usually of most interest.

Flip horizontally, Flip vertically Whether to reverse (i.e. invert the sign of) the output coordinates for the specified dimension(s). This may allow better visualization, especially when comparing maps that are similar apart from reflections.

Use logos for labels When this option is selected, the user can replace the labels in the scatterplot with logos. The logos should be supplied as a comma-separated list of URLs.

Maximum number of labels to plot The option limits the number of labels shown. It is useful when there are many points with overlapping labels. The remaining points will be shown without labels.

Chart title Optional title for the scatterplot or bubble chart.

Color Control the color of the scatterplot points

Additional options are available by editing the code.

DIAGNOSTICS

Quality Table Creates an table containing measures of the quality of a correspondence analysis.

Additional Properties

When using this feature you can obtain additional information that is stored by the R code which produces the output.

To do so, select Create > R Output.
In the R CODE, paste: item = YourReferenceName
Replace YourReferenceName with the reference name of your item. Find this in the Report tree or by selecting the item and then going to Properties > General > Name from the object inspector on the right.
Below the first line of code, you can paste in snippets from below or type in str(item) to see a list of available information.

For a more in depth discussion on extracting information from objects in R, checkout our blog post here.

Properties which may be of interest are:

Row coordinates:

item$row.coordinates # plot row coordinates

Column coordinates:

item$column.coordinates # plot column coordinates

Combine row and column coordinates into a single object:

dimensions = rbind(item$row.coordinates,item$column.coordinates) # combined row/column coordinates

Just take the first 2 dimensions (columns) (appropriate for export into a scatterplot):

dimensions[,1:2]

Acknowledgements

The R package ca is used to compute the correspondence analysis.

Code

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var heading_text = 'Correspondence Analysis of a Square Table';
if (!!form.setObjectInspectorTitle)
    form.setObjectInspectorTitle(heading_text, heading_text);
else 
    form.setHeading(heading_text);

var allow_control_groups = Q.fileFormatVersion() > 10.9; // Group controls for Displayr and later versions of Q
function isEmpty(x) { return (x == undefined || x.getValue() == null && (x.getValues() == null || x.getValues().length == 0)) }
function isBlankSheet(x) { return (x.getValue() == null || x.getValue().length == 0) }

var controls = [];
if (!form.dataEntry)
{
    var tableInput = form.dropBox({label: "Input table", types:["table", "RItem"], name: "formTableToAnalyse",
                                   multi: false, prompt: "Select the table to be analyzed"});
    controls.push(tableInput);
}
else
{
    var tableInput = form.dropBox({label: "Input table", types:["table", "RItem"], multi:true, name: "formTableToAnalyse",  multi : false,
                                   required: false, prompt: "Select the table to be analyzed"});
    var pasteInput = form.dataEntry({name: "formEnteredData", 
                                     label: "Paste or type table", 
                                     prompt: "Opens a spreadsheet into which you can paste data.", required: true,
                                     large_data_error: "The data entered is too large. The best alternative is to add your data as a Data Set, use Table > Raw Data > Variable(s), and connect that table to this analysis."});

    if (!allow_control_groups || isBlankSheet(pasteInput) || !isEmpty(tableInput))
        controls.push(tableInput);
    if (!allow_control_groups || isEmpty(tableInput) || !isBlankSheet(pasteInput))
        controls.push(pasteInput);
}
var outOpt = form.comboBox({label: "Output", alternatives:["Scatterplot", "Bubble Chart", "Text"], name: "formOutput",  multi : false,
                            default_value: "Scatterplot", propmpt: "The type of output to be produced"});
controls.push(outOpt);

if (outOpt.getValue() == "Bubble Chart") 
{
    var bSize = form.dropBox({label: "Bubble sizes", types:["table", "RItem"], name: "formBubbleSizes",  multi : false, required: false,
                              prompt: "Sizes of the bubbles of the row points, labelled with the row labels. Leave blank to use diagonals of the input matrix"});
    controls.push(bSize);
    var legTitle = form.textBox({label: "Bubble legend title", type: "text", default_value: "", name: "formLegendTitle", required: false,
                                 prompt: "The title of the legend showing the bubble sizes"});
    controls.push(legTitle);
}



var supp = form.textBox({label: "Supplementary", name: "formSupplementary", required: false,
                         prompt: "Comma-delimited list of labels to be excluded from fitting but are plotted"});
controls.push(supp);
var rowIgnore = form.textBox({label: "Rows to ignore", type: "text", default_value: "NET, Total, SUM", name: "formIgnoreRows",
                              required: false, prompt: "Comma-delimited list of rows to be excluded"});
controls.push(rowIgnore);
var colIgnore = form.textBox({label: "Columns to ignore", type: "text", default_value: "NET, Total, SUM", name: "formIgnoreColumns",
                              required: false, prompt: "Comma-delimited list of columns to be excluded"});
controls.push(colIgnore);
 
if (["Scatterplot", "Bubble Chart"].indexOf(outOpt.getValue()) != -1)
{
    var dim1 = form.numericUpDown({label: "Horizontal dimension", name: "formDim1", default_value:1,
                                   prompt: "The dimension to be plotted horizontally"});
    controls.push(dim1);
    var dim2 = form.numericUpDown({label: "Vertical dimension", name: "formDim2", default_value:2,
                                   prompt: "The dimension to be plotted vertically"});
    controls.push(dim2);
    var mirror1 = form.checkBox({label: "Flip horizontally", name:"formMirrorDim1",
                                 default_value: false, prompt: "Reverse the points along the horizontal axis"});
    controls.push(mirror1);
    var mirror2 = form.checkBox({label: "Flip vertically", name:"formMirrorDim2", default_value: false,
                                 default_value: false, prompt: "Reverse the points along the vertical axis"});
    controls.push(mirror2);
    var maxLab = form.numericUpDown({label: "Maximum number of labels to plot", name: "formMaxLab", default_value:20, maximum: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER,
                                     prompt: "The maximum number of labels to show"});
    controls.push(maxLab);
    if (outOpt.getValue() == "Scatterplot")
    {
        var logoOpt = form.checkBox({label: "Use logos for labels", name:"formUseLogo", default_value: false, prompt: "Replace the text labels with logos"});
        controls.push(logoOpt);
        if (logoOpt.getValue())
        {
            var logoUrl = form.textBox({name: "formLogos", label: "Logos", prompt: "Enter URLs as a comma separated list", type: "Text", required: true});
            controls.push(logoUrl);
            var logoSize = form.numericUpDown({name: "formLogoSize", label: "Logo size", default_value: 0.5, increment: 0.1});
            controls.push(logoSize);
        }
    }
    var title = form.textBox({label: "Chart title", type: "text", default_value: "Correspondence analysis", name: "formTitle", required: false});
    controls.push(title);
    var color = form.colorPicker({label: "Color", name: "rowColor", default_value:"#5B9BD5", prompt: "The color of the points"});
    controls.push(color);
}
if (["Scatterplot", "Bubble Chart"].indexOf(outOpt.getValue()) != -1)
{
    var titleSz = form.numericUpDown({name:"formTitleFontSize", label:"Title font size", default_value: 20});
    controls.push(titleSz);
    var xtitleSz = form.numericUpDown({name:"formXTitleFontSize", label:"X-axis title font size", default_value: 16});
    controls.push(xtitleSz);
    var ytitleSz = form.numericUpDown({name:"formYTitleFontSize", label:"Y-axis title font size", default_value: 16});
    controls.push(ytitleSz);
    var labSz = form.numericUpDown({name:"formLabelsFontSize", label:"Labels font size", default_value: 14});
    controls.push(labSz);
    var axisSz = form.numericUpDown({name:"formAxisFontSize", label:"Axis labels font size", default_value: 10});
    controls.push(axisSz);
    var legendSz = form.numericUpDown({name:"formLegendFontSize", label:"Legend font size", default_value: 15});
    controls.push(legendSz);
    var gridShow = form.checkBox({label:"Show gridlines", name:"formShowGridlines", default_value: true});
    controls.push(gridShow);
}
form.setInputControls(controls);