Changing Bar Labels
A worked example of changing bar chart labels in Stata
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Change Your Stata Interface - For Both Windows and Mac
Stata interface is made up of five key windows: History window, Results window, Command window, Variables window and Properties window.
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Categorical Histograms
A histogram can be used to show either continuous or categorical data in a bar graph. For continuous data the histogram command in Stata will put the data into artificial categories called bins. For example, if you have a list of heights for 1000 people and you run the histogram command on that data, it will organize the heights into ranges. Each range is shown as a bar along the x-axis, and each bar represents the number of people whose height falls into that range. In this way the histogram command has created height categories to give a visual understanding of the distribution of heights in the data.
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Changing Stata's interface to other languages
Change your Stata menus to display in other languages
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Using Asjad's 'Bumpline' Package to Map the 2025 AFL Season
Analysis of the AFL 2025 ladder using bumpline graphs
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Violin Plot in Stata
A violin plot is a modified box-plot which adds the estimated kernel density to each plot. To draw this plot in Stata you will need a user-written command called vioplot. This can be easily installed within Stata using the following command:
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External Resources
Helpful guides from fellow Stata users
A quick fire compilation of lesser known Stata tips. Even seasoned Stata users will find something new in this book.
The Stata Guide repository on GitHub
The Stata Guide includes is a series of smaller guides on topics from maps to workflow to programming. It includes a lot of cool data visualisations and even ready-to-use Stata packages for some of the guides focusing on graphics.
The Graph Workflow is a website full of data graphs focusing on accurate, informative and efficient graphs for reporting, exploratory and inferential purposes. All Stata code for each graph is provided.
Getting More Out of Stata’s Graph Editor: A Concise Guide
The ultimate guide to Stata's Graph Editor designed for both beginner and more advanced Stata users.
How to handle large datasets in Stata
An excellent guide on how to navigate the issue of insufficient memory when handling large datasets.