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In this guide, learn to make the following Waffle chart in Stata:

Waffle charts are basically percentages blown up to be shown as shares of boxes, that look like waffles. Just think of waffle charts as proportional stacked bar graphs but sexier. Waffle charts are used for showing progress over…

In this guide, learn to make the following arc plot in Stata:

What are arc plots? Arc plots basically represent non-symmetric bilateral flows between a bunch of nodes grouped on a horizontal axis. Think of a network structure where the nodes are basically displayed on the x-axis, and the flows…

Reading published code is hard work, and trying to emulate its complex structure is even harder. While we can untangle the code into smaller core parts, can we interlink these different parts back together to form a coherent whole? In this guide we discuss the art of coding, why the…

This guide is all about making maps in Stata. It provides a set of templates using actual data to help you guide through the process. In this guide learn how to reproduce maps like these:

In this guide we will learn to create Rose or Coxcomb plots in Stata.

Here we will also learn how to replicate Florence Nightingale’s famous sanitation and mortality figure shown below which is now part of the dataviz hall of fame. Florence Nightingale was one of the early pioneers in…

In this guide, we will cover the basics of Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) and learn how to program it in Stata.

If you here, then you are most likely a graduate student dealing with this topic in a course or programming some estimation command in Stata. But MLEs also have…

In this article we will shed some light on Stata’s secret weapon: Mata. While most people have heard of it, and some might have even dabbled with Mata commands, very few have ventured deep inside its territory to explore what really lies beyond the obvious applications of some matrix algebra.

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