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Re: st: Plot of horizontal bars in descending order of the percentages of categories of a string variable
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Plot of horizontal bars in descending order of the percentages of categories of a string variable
Date
Sun, 1 Dec 2013 15:17:36 +0000
"The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead."
(George Mikes)
Nick
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On 1 December 2013 15:12, jose maria pacheco de souza <[email protected]> wrote:
> Em 01/12/2013 12:19, Nick Cox escreveu:
>>
>> Good, but I don't know what you are quoting from here.
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>>>> Try -catplot- (SSC).
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>>
> help for catplot
> Remarks
> ...
> ...
> Note some simple principles in this territory:
>
> It is difficult to create a great graph, but easy to improve a bad
> one.
> Comparisons must be easy. That could mean in one dimension, across a
> row or down a column, or it could mean using a table structure.
> Ordering by magnitude may be even more useful than ordering by
> category.
> Bars are better than pie slices as length is easier to judge than
> angle. Dots on a scale are a good way to include magnitudes.
> Text is better read as horizontal than as vertical.
> Showing numbers as text as well by graphical elements can be
> helpful.
> Lose the legend if you can. A great advantage of graph hbar | bar |
> dot is strong support for category labels, which can be nested too.
>
>
> josé maria
>
>
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