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Re: st: creating a bar chart with overlayed symbols
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: creating a bar chart with overlayed symbols
Date
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:47:25 -0400
Walt, can you explain what is the advantage of your desired chart over
something more traditional like below? Also from what you describe
star/spider charts might be of relevance.:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/MER_Star_Plot.gif
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sysuse auto, clear
keep if rep78>2
graph bar price, over(foreign) over(rep78) asyvar
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An example of what you want to do would be helpful (paste a link to
image, not an image).
Best, Sergiy Radyakin
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Data Analytics Corp.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Suppose I have a small data set with four variables:
>
> att -- product attributes of a consumer product as character strings
> pct -- percent of consumers rating the importance of the attributes
> comp1 -- consumer performance rating (in percent) of competitor 1 on
> each attribute
> comp2 -- like comp1 but for competitor 2
>
> I'd like to create a simple horizontal bar chart of pct by categories att
> (no problem with this -- I know how to do it), but have symbols overlayed on
> each bar for comp1 and comp2. The symbols should be a triangle for comp1
> and a square for comp2. How do I overlay symbols on each bar? Basically,
> the bars show how important each attribute is to consumers and the symbols
> how the competition performs on each attribute. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt
>
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