Re: st: Surface plots or heat maps

[Maurizio Pisati <maurizio.pisati@galactica.it>]

Dear John,
you don't need to adapt -tmap- (or its successor -spmap-) to get surface 
plots: you just need to have the data in proper format and then draw them 
as if they represented a map. You can find some examples (not the data, 
just the pictures) in 
<http://www.tstat.it/novita/conferenze/SUG2005/Pisati.pdf>http://www.tstat.it/novita/conferenze/SUG2005/Pisati.pdf. 
Of course, having the data in proper format is another question.
Best,
Maurizio



At 22.11 14/02/2007, you wrote:

> I've gone through the FAQs and help files, but cannot find any reference
> to Stata being able to generate surface plots or heat maps.  I did find
> a STB package called -surface written by Adrian Mander, but it appears
> to be for the Stata 7 graph engine. It also seems very bare bones and
> the z-axis scale is completely arcane (my data was decimal fractions
> less than 1 and the scale was in 10's of thousands).
>
> The only other possibility seems to be adapting -tmap (thematic maps by
> Maurizio Pisati) to work with a simple graphic file of the coordinate
> system I'd like to place my data on and encoding the z-axis in color.
> Is there an alternative I'm missing somewhere?  I don't think this is a
> particularly novel analysis - excel has a chart object for surface
> plots, but its cumbersome to move data in and out of Excel obviously.
>
> Thanks for any advice
> John Wallace
>
>
>
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