Powerpoint question

[KillerGremlin]

Does Openoffice have some Excel replacement? Sad as it may be I'm an avid Office user. My advice is look for a spreadsheet type program like Microsoft Excel. It's an awesome and powerful tool that can do a ton of things.

I'm not really how best to represent the data you have provided, but it sounds like you have a ton of options.

Personally, I think the easiest way to compare it would be to make 2 Tables. Negative and Positive emotions.

Negative Emotions
---Emotion---|Active
Sadness...........Yes
Depression.......No

Positive Emotions
---Emotion---|Active
Happy...............Yes

You could then make 2 Graphs. Put the emotion on the X-axis. And the Likert Score for how Active that emotion was rated.

This would work best in my opinion because your Likert Scale that decided if the emotion was negative or positive has little graphical meaning.
...........1.................4................7
Very Negative | Neutral | Very Positive

You could even exclude emotions that are "Neutral."


But I'm not sure how your study works. Are you trying to measure how active negative and positive emotions are? Because that is what your data seems to best illustrate.

So yeah, go with 2 bar graphs. Use the Likert Scale data from the Negative/Positive to make 2 groups. Then on the X axis put the emotion, and on the Y axis put the Likert Value.