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Static to live: combining Stata with Google Charts API

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  • Belen Chavez

    (San Diego Gas & Electric)

  • William Matsuoka

    (San Diego Gas & Electric)

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Stata graphics are professional, visually pleasing, and easy to format, but lack the interactive experience or transparency options requested by many users. In this presentation, we introduce a new command, gchart: a fully functional wrapper for the Google Chart API that is written almost entirely like the twoway command, allowing users to write quality JavaScript data visualizations using familiar Stata graphing syntax. While other Google Chart based programs already exist, gchart aims to be the most comprehensive library to-date. With gchart, Stata users can present interactive web-based graphics without exporting their data to secondary software packages or learning JavaScript and HTML. The gchart library contains most Stata graph types such as bar, pie, and line, as well as new graphs offered by Google Charts such as treemaps, timelines, Sankey diagrams, and more! The command contains an option to create interactive tables directly from datasets and even has preset settings to make resulting Google Charts feel more Stata-like. Once the visualizations are rendered, web visitors and/or blog readers will be happy to play with the resulting graphics.

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  • Belen Chavez & William Matsuoka, 2016. "Static to live: combining Stata with Google Charts API," 2016 Stata Conference 16, Stata Users Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:scon16:16
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