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| From | Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| 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 ****************************** sysuse auto, clear keep if rep78>2 graph bar price, over(foreign) over(rep78) asyvar ****************************** 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. <walt@dataanalyticscorp.com> 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 > > ________________________ > > Walter R. Paczkowski, Ph.D. > Data Analytics Corp. > 44 Hamilton Lane > Plainsboro, NJ 08536 > ________________________ > (V) 609-936-8999 > (F) 609-936-3733 > walt@dataanalyticscorp.com > www.dataanalyticscorp.com > _____________________________________________________ > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/