Index

Slide table of contents

o Cover

o The truth about graphics

- Size of the graphics system

Try the graph commands, they may be enough

o Resources for those less familiar with graph (ancillary)

o Twoway isn't always

What is a graph?

o Some example graphs (ancillary)

o What are Stata graphs

o What is the graph command (ancillary)

o What are saved graphs (ancillary)

Some concepts and constructs

o A touch of class - quick review (ancillary)

o You gotta have style (ancillary)

o Anatomy of a Graph

Examples manipulating graphs with class commands

o Combining graphs with a common legend

o I want another axis on my box plot

o I don't have the data

- A digression on sersets

Changing and extending graph commands

o Bar? graphs

o Nick wants arrows

o Where is the handout?

Supporting materials

Do files

Produces ocean current graph for Alaska
using our
new sarrows plotttype. Slide: .

Support file to input test data for first
arrows example. Slide: .

Draws normal distribution illustration. Slide:
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Draws population pyramid.
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Draws regression line with CI density
illustration. Slide: .

Ado files

Draws full "anatomy of a graph" graph
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Draws initial "anatomy of a graph" graph
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Draws simplified "anatomy of a graph" graph
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Implements drawing program for
our new sarrows plotttype.
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Classes

Implements our balbar graph
family.
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Implements our stbar graph
family.
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Styles

Required .style file for our
yxtype plottype.
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Graphs
graph use boxhist2.gph Histograms with box plots graph.
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graph use cool.gph Cooling degree days scatterplot.
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graph use heat.gph Heating degree days scatterplot.
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graph use parp_v.gph Parallel coordinates graph.
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graph use triplot_us.gph Triplot graph.
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Datasets

alaska.dta Data for the Alaska ocean
current graphs.
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anatomy.dta Data for the "anatomy of
a graph" graph.
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