Re: st: RE: complicated scatterplot with connected points

[Gisella Young <gisellayoung@yahoo.com>]

Dear Nick (and others),

Thank you for the hint but unfortunately I have not been able to see how this solves the problem. Reshaping the data as you suggest is not a problem, but I still can't see how to connect the scatterplot points with lines in the specific way needed. Perhaps you (or someone else) could give a further clue, or elaborate some of the other various approaches that you mention exist?

Thanks for the help.

regards,
Gisella


--- On Fri, 12/3/10, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
> Subject: st: RE: complicated scatterplot with connected points
> To: "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 5:44 PM
> There are various approaches to this.
> One is to restructure your data so that the graphics command
> becomes easier. 
> 
> preserve 
> reshape long x y, i(city) 
> 
> Spelling is Stata. 
> 
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> 
> 
> Gisella Young 
> 
> I want to draw a slightly complex scatterplot in STATA and
> have not been able to find a way how. For each city I have 3
> points (each with a x- and y-coordinate) for 3 different
> years. I can use the -twoway- graphics command to do three
> overlaid scatterplots so that each city has 3 points, one
> for each year. The tricky part: to CONNECT (with a line) the
> three points for each city, so as to trace its path over
> time.
> 
> The command I am using at the moment, for the basic
> scatterplot without connecting lines, is:
>  twoway (scatter x y1, sort mlabel(city1)) (scatter x2 y2,
> sort mlabel(city2)) (scatter x3 y3, sort mlabel(city3))
> 
> 
> My data has the following structure:
> 
> city       
> x1   y1   x2   
> y2   
> x3   y3   city1   
>   city2      city3
> 
> Portland   
> 34   64   23   
> 78   
> 54   67   Portland1 
> Portland2  Portland3
> Chicago 
>    53   72   33 
>   52   
> 91   77   Chicago1   Chicago2   Chicago3
> Boston      etc
> 
> 
> I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thank you!
> 
> 
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