Keith McCormick

You might want to check this out in person and/or wait for more details.
http://www.spss.com/seeit/seminar.htm

Had someone is class ask if he could change the color of a line segment for emphasis:
GET  FILE='C:\Program Files\SPSS\Tutorial\sample_files\stocks2004.sav'.IF (XDATE.MONTH(Date)=11) close2 = close .EXECUTE .* Chart Builder.GGRAPH /GRAPHDATASET NAME="graphdataset" VARIABLES=Date MEAN(close2)[rename=  "MEAN_close2"] MEAN(Close)[rename="MEAN_Close"] MISSING=VARIABLEWISE /GRAPHSPEC SOURCE=INLINE.BEGIN GPL SOURCE: s=userSource(id("graphdataset")) DATA: Date=col(source(s), name("Date")) DATA: MEAN_Close=col(source(s), name("MEAN_Close")) DATA: MEAN_close2=col(source(s), name("MEAN_close2")) GUIDE: axis(dim(1), label("Date")) GUIDE: axis(dim(2), label("Mean close2")) ELEMENT: line(position(Date*MEAN_Close), missing.wings(), color(color.red) ) ELEMENT: line(position(Date*MEAN_close2), missing.wings(), color(color.blue) )END […]

I recently had an exchange on SPSSX-L where someone asked about this link.  I suggested the "stat's coach" in SPSS's help for SPSS users.  But … I like the chart regardless, and it comes in handy when teaching multivariate stats.  Check it out.
http://www.datastep.com/StatisticalSelectionGuide.pdf
Another intersting version of the same thing was also on SPSSX-L.  My apologies […]

Looks like it has been made official as there is traffic on the newly minted SPSS Developer's Central.  The news is that starting very soon we will be able to use VB.net as well as Python.  I have not pursued the new option yet, but when I do I will put something here.
http://www.spss.com/devcentral/