Statalist


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: st: graphics


From   Thomas Speidel <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: graphics
Date   Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:52:19 -0600

It's not hard in Stata to produce moving graphs, all you need is a common scheme, and consistent axis and options. I used Ghostscript to export png (consecutively named). After that I used Quicktime from Apple to create an avi (or quicktime movie). I had done that on a 'moving' population pyramid over 20 years (monthly).

Quoting Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]> Mon 30 Mar 14:37:30 2009:

Somebody posted this on R-help list, and I was pretty much stunned:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
... for some 15 minutes until I played in their sandbox:
http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/ . When is Stata doing something
like that?

Actually, I've done some fast moving graphs with Stata 7 back in 2001
or so. But with the new object-oriented graphics engine, the hope will
instead be in producing a proper movie. Matlab has been exporting
graphics into AVI for some while now, I think. At some point, I strung
a couple dozen Stata-produced eps graphs into an avi using some video
software (Adobe Premiere?). If Stata were producing JPEGs, then I'd
imagine it would be a relatively simple exercise in -file- to produce
an MJPEG video out of these. Just thinking aloud out there; may be it
is only worth a Stata tip for ten users interested rather than a
separate -graph movie- routine.

--
Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only.
*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/




--
Thomas Speidel


*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/



© Copyright 1996–2024 StataCorp LLC   |   Terms of use   |   Privacy   |   Contact us   |   What's new   |   Site index