Configure Options.

Config lets you simplify & order the options in your table & chart, making it much easier to analyse.

1 metric is easier to understand then 5 choices. E.g.
- a merged choice like "Top 2 Box" or
- a combined average like the "NPS" metric.
Ordered data is faster to mentally process than unordered data.

In Glow, you can:

Merge & unmerge choices
Relabel, reorder, & reset choices
Display, hide, & exclude choices
Score, combine, and average choices

Imagine you asked respondents a matrix question about how "annoying" they find ads in the following channels,

with 10 statements from "Free-to-air TV" to "Streaming video" to "Outdoor media"
and 5 scale choices from "Not at all" to "Extremely",
and 1 independent choice for "N/A" if channel doesn't apply.

Merge allows you to group similar choices together. E.g. 6 choices become 4 when

"Not at all" and "A little" = "Bottom 2 Box", i.e. the lowest 2 scores.
"Very" and "Extremely" = "Top 2 Box", i.e. the highest 2 scores
"Moderately" and "N/A" = no change i.e. the middle and independent choices.

To merge choices:

Click the Choices Config (cog) button above your table to the right.
Check the boxes (to the left) of the choices you want to merge
Click Merge

Relabel choice if needed, e.g. to "Top 2 Box"

Repeat steps 2 to 4 for any other merged choice you want to create, e.g. for "Bottom 2 Box"

Click Done when you're ready.

Optionally, you can...

Click the 'i' information icon next to each merged choice to see the original choices.
Click Unmerge (right of the 'i' icon & score box) to revert to the original choices
Click Reset (bottom right) to revert everything back to all the original choices and labels,

Hide allows you to simplify your views down to a single metric. E.g. 4 merged choices above becomes 1 visible choice below for Top 2 Box. Using our single Top 2 Box metric, we can clearly see ads are most annoying on social media and least annoying in outdoor media.

To hide choices.

Click the Config button.
Click the Hide icon, e.g. hide "Bottom 2 Box", "Moderately", and "N/A" but don't hide "Top 2 Box".
Click Done.

Exclude does not merely hide a choice. It removes it, rebases the data, and recalculates percentages & averages. E.g. 51% for Streaming video above becomes 59% when N/A is excluded below.

To exclude choices.

Click the Config button
Click the Exclude icon, e.g. exclude "N/A"
Click Done

Reorder lets you order variables however you like, e.g. from worst to best, negative to positive, highest to lowest, A-Z, and vice versa. In this case, we have no need to reorder choices as they're already logically ordered from "Not at all" to "Extremely" or from "Bottom 2" to "Top 2". We instead want to reorder statements so that they're ordered from highest % to lowest %.

To reorder statements:

Click the Statements Config button (above table, to the right)
Click the Up/Down arrows next to each choice until it's in the desired position.
Click Done

Optionally, you can...

Relabel Statements.
Hide Statements.

Note that within Statements Config, you can't:

merge / unmerge statements
exclude statements
score and combine statements.

But you can do everything else.

This will be the same setup in Loops Config and Ranks Config.

Also note, the reorder process is manual at the moment using the method above but will be automated when "Reorder by Table Column or Row" is developed.

Score, Combine, and Average provides a single, central value to summarize a set of data, making it easier to understand and compare groups

To score, combine, and average choices, see...

Tip: Once you've made your config changes...

Click Save to lock it in. This will also make your change visible to everyone viewing this dashboard (incl. shared dashboards).
Don't click Save if you only want this change to be temporarily visible to yourself. Refresh page to undo any recent & unsaved changes.

Well done.

With Config, you've just simplified & ordered your analysis. 🎉