Re: st: Graphical challenge from Gelman blog

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

"realised" was a slip for "released".

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Over at Andrew Gelman's blog, there have been various attempts to
> improve on a graph first published by the The Economist. Most of the
> solutions use R. Some Stata users may want to try to see what they can
> do. Here are the threads:
>
> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2011/04/one_more_time-u.html
>
> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2011/04/attractive_but.html
>
> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2011/04/the_r_code_for.html
>
> Here's some code to read the data into Stata. The data are average
> hours per day spent in various activities in different countries.
>
> clear
> input hours
>      4.2
>      3.2
>     11.1
>      1.3
>      2.2
>        2
>      3.9
>      3.2
>       10
>       .8
>      3.1
>      3.1
>      6.3
>      2.5
>      9.8
>       .9
>      2.2
>      2.4
>      4.4
>      3.1
>      9.8
>       .8
>      3.3
>      2.7
>      4.8
>        3
>      9.9
>       .7
>      3.1
>      2.4
>        4
>      3.4
>     10.5
>       .7
>      3.3
>      2.1
> end
> egen country = seq(), block(6)
> egen activity = seq(), to(6)
> label def country 1 France 2 Germany 3 Japan 4 Britain 5 USA 6 Turkey
> label def activity 1 Paid 2 Unpaid 3 "Eating, sleeping" 4 "Personal
> care" 5 Leisure 6 Other
> label val country country
> label val activity activity
>
> and here's one suggestion on how to plot it. I can see the force of
> Andrew Gelman's suggestion to average across countries and plot
> residuals from that, but plotting the original data works as well for
> me.
>
> tabplot ac co  [iw=hours], showval height(0.6) ytitle("") xtitle("")
> subtitle(hours/day)
>
> Here -tabplot- is from SSC. (By the way, versions of -tabplot- not yet
> realised handle negative bars better than that on SSC, but there are
> no negative bars in the above.)
>
> Nick
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