Data V isualization (5): Through the Use of the SPSS Graph F unction

Abstract

This paper gives a description of data visualization by SPSS and specifically focuses on the graph drawing function. It deals with three graphs, which are believed to be fundamental in the quantitative study of language. They are the histogram, boxplot, and scatter plot. The outcome of the research on text difficulty of corpus data conducted by Lee, Hasebe, and Kubo (2016) is used as data. The data used is posted on the Web so we expect SPSS users to experiment with it.