Abbreviate Categories...

This operation is only available in the right-click menus of boxplots, barplots (not horizontal barplots), and pie charts. Tic labels of these 3 types of plots visualizing a categorical variable with long category names can either overlap with each others or be displayed partially, as illustrated by the barplot in Figure 13-1 and the pie chart in Figure 13-2

Under such circumstances, invoke Abbreviate Categories.... This operation will pop up a non-modal dialog like the following: This dialog is attached to the scenegraph root-level data set of the plot over which this operation is invoked. It affects all plots, with the exception of horizontal barplots, under the root-level data set displaying as tic labels the category names of the categorical variable displayed in the dialog. For each categorical variable, each root-level data set can have at most one such dialog attached to it at any time. For example, the following is the scenegraph containing the barplot in Figure 13-1, the pie chart in Figure 13-2, and the dialog in Figure 13-3: Changing the slider's value to 12 will make the plots in Figure 13-1 and Figure 13-2 look like the ones in Figure 13-4 and Figure 13-5.

We would like to emphasize it is the tic labels, within a plot, of a categorical variable with long category names that are affected by this operation. If we were to put the barplot in Figure 13-4 into the identify mode and left click its right-most bar, we would get the following [1]:

Notice that the full category names, "Puget Sound Educational Service District 121", are printed in the ESD column.