Re: st: creating a bar chart with overlayed symbols

["Data Analytics Corp." <walt@dataanalyticscorp.com>]

Good morning,

Thanks for the help with this problem.  But I have it solved. Actually, 
my solution was along the lines of your solution -- comforting to know 
that I had the right idea.

The chart is very simple.  The bars are suppose to show the mean 
importance of a set of product attributes, but over all consumers in a 
survey.  The symbols represent the mean importance rating of the same 
consumers, but by the segments they are classified in. This way, we can 
see which segments show more emphasis on each attribute, and which show 
less.  This type of chart is used frequently when there are importance 
and performance ratings on each attribute, with the performance ratings 
by different competitors being the symbols.  The whole diagram would 
show gaps (and opportunities) for any one competitor to dominant an 
attribute.  The spider diagram is sometimes used, but it becomes 
difficult to dicipher when there are many attributes -- too confusing.  
Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Walt

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Data Analytics Corp.
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On 6/21/2013 12:00 PM, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
> Walt, I still can't visualize exactly what you want to obtain. But
> here is something to play with. Sergiy
>
> sysuse auto, clear
> keep if rep78>2
> label define lrep78 3 "Feature A" 4 "Feature B" 5 "Feature C"
> label values rep78 lrep78
>
> separate price, by(foreign)
> collapse (mean) price (mean) weight, by(rep78 foreign)
> label variable price "Average price"
> label variable weight "Importance of feature"
> label variable foreign "Car origin"
>
> twoway bar price foreign, by(rep78, rows(1)) fc(teal) lc(teal) ///
>         yscale(r(0(1000)8000)) ///
>         xlabel(0 "domestic" 1 "foreign") ||  ///
>         scatter weight foreign if foreign==0, by(rep78) ms(T) mc(red) || ///
>         scatter weight foreign if foreign==1, by(rep78) ms(S) mc(green) ///
>         legend(rows(1))
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Data Analytics Corp.
> <walt@dataanalyticscorp.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion.  I started to head in that direction. Now to do
> > it.
> >
> >
> > 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
> > _____________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > On 6/21/2013 4:57 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> > > You need to translate your problem to -twoway-, e.g.  -twoway bar-
> > > Then overlaid symbols are just a -scatter- or -scatteri- on top.
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