Dear Stephan,
have a look at this page:
http://www.adeptanalytics.org/radyakin/stata/graphics/radyakin_graphics.htm
If this is something that you are looking for, contact me to get the
program files.
Best regards, Sergiy Radyakin
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:33 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Statalisters,
>
> many of you may know this feature from MS Excel (from Version 2007 on).
> It's more or less a "choropleth map" for data tables (cell colour
> depends on cell value relative to the table distribution or on
> conditions).
> (see:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428945%28office.11%29.aspx)
>
>
> In my work I often have to display both a table (to pick data from) and
> a graph (for visual impression) to users and I'm constantly trying to
> combine both. Colouring tables is one way to do this if rules/conditions
> are user-defineable.
>
> I thought about setting up a coloured twoway table in Stata but that
> doesn't seem to be easy:
>
> Stata's results window doesn't allow for fancy tricks so the table must
> be in a graph.
>
> Spmap by Maurizio Pisati has all colouring options I need and can be set
> up with rectangular polygons and polygon centroids for labeling.
> But it's not written for that purpose, so it's difficult to set up:
> - a n*m polygon-coordinates dataset for each table must be created
> - linkage of table cells to polygons
> - handling of missing values and category "missing"
> - use of value labels
> - display of row and/or column totals (yes/no)
> - ...
>
> I already started to produce some coloured tables with spmap but these
> are only first tests.
> I'm curious if there is any other graph framework available in Stata
> which also may be suitable for this purpose.
>
> Best wishes
> Stefan Gawrich
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