BLINDSCHEMES: Stata module to provide graph schemes sensitive to color vision deficiency

Daniel Bischof ()
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Daniel Bischof: University of Zurich

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: While Stata's computational capabilities have intensively increased over the last decade, the quality of its default figure schemes is still a matter of debate amongst users. Clearly some of the arguments speaking against Stata figures are subject to individual taste, but others are not, such as for instance: horizontal labelling, unnecessary background tinting, missing gridlines, oversized markers. The two schemes introduced here attempt to solve the major shortcomings of Stata's default figure schemes. The schemes come with 21 new colors, of which seven colors are distinguishable for people suffering from color blindness. This package provides users with four new figure schemes: plotplain (plain and simple plotting environment, avoids chartjunk); plotplainblind (plain and simple plotting environment, avoids chartjunk + colorblind friendly); plottig (replicates R ggplot in most regards); plottigblind (replicates R ggplot in most regards + colorblind friendly)

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 12
Keywords: graphics; schemes; color vision deficiency; color blindness; chartjunk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-10-13, Revised 2020-08-07
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install blindschemes". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/b/blindschemes.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/scheme-plotplain.scheme scheme file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/scheme-plotplainblind.scheme scheme file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/scheme-plottig.scheme scheme file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/scheme-plottigblind.scheme scheme file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/plotplain.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/plotplainblind.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/plottig.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/plottigblind.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-vermillion.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-sky.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-reddish.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-orangebrown.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-ananas.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-turquoise.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-sea.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-plb1.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-plb2.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-plb3.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-plg1.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-plg2.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-plg3.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-pll1.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-pll2.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-pll3.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-plr1.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-plr2.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-ply1.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-ply2.style program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/color-ply3.style program code (text/plain)

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