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'''Analytics''' is the aggregated, at-a-glance view of everyone's answers to a survey — charted automatically, with no setup required. It's the page you land on first when you click "Responses" for a survey; individual, response-by-response answers are one click away from there (see [[RefractSurvey_Responses|Responses]]).

[[File:RefractSurvey_Analytics.png|thumb|center|600px|Analytics for a survey, with a pie chart for one of its questions.]]

== What gets charted ==

Every yes/no, scale, single-choice, and multiple-choice question gets its own chart, grouped by the [[RefractSurvey_Groups|group]] it belongs to. Number and date questions are shown as histograms, grouped into buckets. Short text, long text, and email questions aren't charted — there's no meaningful way to automatically summarize free text, so those just show how many people answered versus skipped, with a link over to the full list of responses if you want to actually read them.

== Bar or pie ==

Every chart can be switched between a bar graph and a pie chart using the button in its own corner — pie is the default. Your choice is remembered for that question for the rest of your browsing session, so flipping through several charts doesn't mean re-clicking the toggle each time.

The pie chart's legend always shows each slice's raw count and its percentage of total selections. For a multiple-choice question, keep in mind that percentages can add up to more than 100% overall, since a respondent can pick more than one option — RefractSurvey notes this on the chart itself when it applies.

== When a question's options have changed ==

If a single or multiple-choice question's options were edited after some responses already came in, an old answer that no longer matches any current option shows up under an "Other (option since changed/removed)" bucket, rather than silently vanishing from the chart.

== See also ==

* [[RefractSurvey_Responses|Responses]]
* [[RefractSurvey_Question_Types|Question Types]]
* [[RefractSurvey_Backups|Backups]]

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