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# Review graphs

On this page you can look at initial patterns in the data being collected over the web (or entered by you). This page is not meant to support a comprehensive, systematic look at your patterns; that will happen in the catalysis phase of your project. This page (and the Review incoming stories page) are for watching your stories come in and looking to see if your story collection is going well.

## What to do here

Choose one or two questions to explore. You will see graphs in these combinations:

- Choice question: a bar graph. Hover your mouse over any of the "blocks" on the graph to see a "popup hint" with the story represented by that block.
- Scale question: a histogram (with stories arrayed in "bins" across the scale). Hover over any block to read the story.
- Choice question x choice question: a contingency chart (with bubbles showing how many stories match each combination of choices). Hover over any ellipse to see the names of stories in that bubble.
- Choice question x scale question: a series of histograms. Hover over blocks in the histograms to read stories.
- Scale question x scale question: a scatterplot. Hover your mouse over each dot to read the story.

If you use your mouse to draw a selection rectangle on any graph, you will see the stories in that selection listed below the graph.

## Connections to other pages

To review your graphs, you must first (a) create a story collection (which must be associated with a story form) and (b) collect, enter, or import some stories. You cannot make any changes to your data on this page. To change your data, go to the Review incoming stories page.

## Frequently-asked questions

### If I asked a question, and it had a lot of possible answers, and some of the answer counts turned out to be really low, is there anything I can do about it?

Yes there is. You can use display lumping to merge multiple low-count answers together. See the help page on Configuring your catalysis report for details.