topic Waterfall Plot: x-axis tick mark vertical labels in Graphics Programming

Waterfall Plot: x-axis tick mark vertical labels

Banoo — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:43:20 GMT

Hello,

In my waterfall, I am plotting change in tumor size for 145 subjects. As a result the subject numbers are not displayed clearly and x-axis is not readable. Is there a way to make the subject numbers (x-axis) tick marks vertical? Attached to this post is an image of x-axis from the plot. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!!

Re: Waterfall Plot: x-axis tick mark vertical labels

ballardw — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:57:31 GMT

It never hurts to share the code you are currently using.

Suggestions that are based on a Proc SGPLOT solution may not be appropriate if you are using Graph Template Language, or vice versa.

Since your current axis is so "ugly" you should provide some examples of what the text displayed on the axis should be.

You should be able to use the VALUESROTATE=Vertical on an XAXIS statement but this interacts to some extent with the FITPOLICY option, which is why I suggest showing the entire code of your plot.

Re: Waterfall Plot: x-axis tick mark vertical labels

JeffMeyers — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:18:43 GMT

As a programmer who also works with tumor measurement data my question is: is it necessary to even show the patient ids in the axis? The purpose of the plot is to get an idea of how patients responded to the treatment in a visual, and using the graph to track an individual patient isn't really efficient. I would turn the ticks and labels off for the x axis and just mention how many patients are included.