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Brewing Color Schemes in Stata: Making it Easier for End Users to Customize Stata Graphs

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  • William Buchanan

    (Mississippi Department of Education)

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Although Stata graphs can be created to satisfy customized needs, it can be time consuming to specify all of the unique options required to create clean customized graphs. Graph schemes provide a method to help alleviate this pain, but customizations to graph schemes are typically fixed for a single scheme. In this presentation, I will be discussing a new Stata program I developed - colorbrewscheme - that allows end users to generate customized graph schemes using color palettes available from www.colorbrewer2.org. The program allows users to specify a single color palette for all graph types, unique color palettes for individual graph types, or a combination (e.g., specify color palettes [and the number of colors to select from the palette] for scatterplots and set a default color palette for the other graph types). Additionally, the schemes generated by the program also set clean graph defaults (e.g., all white backgrounds/foregrounds, no grid lines, etc...), orient axis labels horizontally, and remove boxes around legends.

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  • William Buchanan, 2015. "Brewing Color Schemes in Stata: Making it Easier for End Users to Customize Stata Graphs," 2015 Stata Conference 18, Stata Users Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:scon15:18
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