Analysis Overview (AV2).

Analyse is where your survey data becomes charts, crosstabs and shareable dashboards. Pick a question, cut it by any audience, and the chart and table recalculate instantly — sig-tested or weighted if you want — for choice, matrix, rank, constant sum, looped, text (word clouds) and location questions. This article is the map: what each part of the screen does, and where to read more.

How Analyse is organised

Three layers, top down:

Dashboards — the workspace you’re in (switcher at the top of the sidebar). Create, duplicate and switch between as many as you need — one per client, per team, per story. See Dashboards.
Views — the pages of a dashboard, listed in the sidebar. Each view is one question plus everything you’ve done to it. Click a view’s title and type to rename it; duplicate, reorder, hide or restore views in the View Manager.
Chart + table — every view shows the same numbers twice: a chart on top, and the Glow Table beneath it that drives the chart.

Save before you switch. Changes to a dashboard are not saved until you click Save at the top of the sidebar — switching to another dashboard first silently discards them.

(The Legacy Mode button in the top corner opens the previous analysis interface, if you ever need it — Switch back returns you here.)

The Glow Table — slots and Values

Above every table sits a row of Table Slots — one per dimension of the question (Choices, plus Statements, Ranks or Loop where the question has them, and Filters), each set to Rows, Columns, or a single value to focus on — plus Values (what number each cell shows) and Sort (what order everything appears in). Move a dimension and the table and chart rebuild instantly; whatever doesn’t fit on an axis shows as a chip under the chart. The full tour is in Table Slots.

Values can be Count, Cell %, Row %, Column %, Total %, or score-based Sum and Average. Cell % — each group’s share of the people actually asked — is the default for percentage questions. Which one answers which question is covered in Values: Count, %, Cell %, Sum & Average.

Sort reorders your table automatically: leave it on Manual, or sort ascending or descending by any row, any column, or the Total — the chart follows.

Each slot’s ⚙ opens its configuration: merge, rename, hide, exclude, reorder and score choices — and the same for statements, loops and ranks — while the Filters slot’s ⚙ manages the segments on the table. See Configure Options.

Bases — what n means, and the Shown base toggle

The n in the top corner is the view’s base: how many respondents its question was asked of. It changes as you’d hope — prefilter the view and n drops; and a routed follow-up question (only asked of people who gave a certain answer earlier) naturally has a smaller n than the question before it. The Total (n) row and column show the base behind every column and row of the table.

Below the table sits the Shown base toggle: tick it and the base counts respondents who were shown each choice or statement, instead of only those who selected one — useful when display logic means not everyone saw every option.

The Shown base toggle beneath a Glow Table, with its tooltip: base counts respondents who were shown each choice/statement, instead of only those who selected one

Charts

The buttons on the chart’s toolbar are, left to right: Commentary (add a note to the view so stakeholders read the chart correctly), Rotate (flip bar charts between horizontal and vertical) and Chart type — six to choose from: Stacked Bars, Grouped Bars, Line, Stacked Area, Spider and Pie.

The chart type menu open on a view, listing Stacked Bars, Grouped Bars, Line, Stacked Area, Spider and Pie

When to use which — and what each defaults to — is in Chart Types. To recolour the series to your brand (or your client’s), see Chart Colours (Theme).

Filters

Filters power everything above. You build a filter once — from any combination of answers using Any of, All of, None of and Exactly, with AND/OR logic — then apply it anywhere. Building and importing them is covered in Create & Import Filters; applying them comes in two flavours:

Prefilters (the + Prefilter button above the chart) narrow the whole view to one audience — stack several to interlock them.
Cross filters (the + at the end of the table’s filter chips) put groups side by side as columns — a visual crosstab, like the All / Male / Female / Metro / Regional columns in the screenshot above.

Either kind can be added to the current view, to selected views, or to every view in the dashboard in one go — and removed from one view with a click of the chip’s ×, or from all views with Shift+click. The full model, with worked examples, is in Prefilters & Cross Filters (One, Some or All Views).

Statistics

Open the dashboard Settings (⚙ at the top of the sidebar) to switch on:

Subset Significance Test — cells significantly higher or lower than the total show green or red in the table, with up/down arrows in the chart. See Significance Testing.
Margin of Error — shows how statistically reliable each base is. See Margin of Error.

Both default to a 95% confidence level, adjustable in the same Settings panel. Weighting (the scales icon in the sidebar) aligns your sample to a nationally representative profile — or upweights the segments that matter to you.

Weighting and MoE/sig-testing are either/or: if margin of error or significance testing is selected, weighting can’t be used — and vice versa.

Analyse any question type

Every question type has its own guide, with worked examples:

The sidebar’s share icon copies a link to a live, no-login-required version of your dashboard, branded with your logo (or your client’s) — and Settings can make it read-only. See Share Dashboards.

The download icon exports your work: tables to an Excel workbook (one tab per view), charts to PowerPoint (one slide per view) — see Download Tables & Charts — or raw responses to CSV, XLSX or SPSS-XLSX, per Download Responses.