Re: st: Labeling series within the plot area

[Max.Livingston@ny.frb.org]

Thanks to all. Right now I'm simply setting local x and y variables equal 
to coordinates where there is whitespace in the graph, and then using 
-text(`y' `x' "Label")-, which is working OK, although it needs to be 
changed for every graph. Would be nice to have a more automated procedure, 
but you can't win 'em all.

Thanks again,
Max


Max Livingston
Research Analyst
Microeconomic Studies
Research and Statistics Group
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(212) 720-7894



From:   Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>
To:     statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu, 
Date:   11/30/2012 08:15 AM
Subject:        Re: st: Labeling series within the plot area
Sent by:        owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu



Allan's nice suggestion is similar in spirit to my earlier posting.
With a little more work you can classify the data points and colour
groups consistently, e.g.

sysuse auto, clear
mark touse
markout touse price wei
regress price wei i.for#c.wei
predict yhat
separate yhat, by(foreign)
bysort touse foreign (weight):  g flab = cond(foreign, "Foreign",
"US") if _n == _N
separate price, by(foreign)
scatter price? yhat? weight, ms(oh th i i) mcolor(blue red)
mlabcolor(blue red blue red) lcolor(blue red blue red) c(. . L L)
mlab(. . flab flab) sort legend(off) ytitle(`: var label price')

See also

SJ-5-4  gr0023  . . . . Stata tip 27: Classifying data points on scatter 
plots
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. 
Cox
        Q4/05   SJ 5(4):604--606                                 (no 
commands)
        tips for using separate, gray-scale gradation, and text
        characters as class symbols to classify data points on
        a scatter plot


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Allan Reese (Cefas)
<allan.reese@cefas.co.uk> wrote:
> A trick I use is to create a second variable containing the label but
> only at the selected points - usually the maximum.
>
> use auto
> regress price wei i.for#c.wei
> predict yhat
> egen maxpoint=max(yhat), by(for)
> sort for yhat
> g flab="US"
> replace flab="Foreign" if for==1
> replace flab="" if yhat!=maxpoint
> scatter price yhat weight, ms(oh i) c(. L) mlab(. flab)
>
> You can use mlabpos and xscale(range()) to allow for fit, or just use
> the graph editor to tweak position.
>
> Allan
>
> On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Max.Livingston@ny.frb.org wrote:
>>> When creating graphs (using a do-file, not the Graph Editor), is
> there a
>>> way to label the data series in the plot area, so the name of the
> series
>>> would appear near the line that is plotted? Here is an example:
>>>
> http://libertystreeteconomics.typepad.com/.a/6a01348793456c970c017d3dfcd
> f73970c-popup
>
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