Unicode include emoji

[Nicholas Winter]

For better or worse, Unicode includes emoji.

sysuse auto, clear
gen lab = "👽" if foreign
replace lab = "😃" if !foreign

gr twoway scatter mpg price, ///
    mlab(lab) msym(none) mlabpos(0) ///
    text( 35 12000 "😃 Domestic" "👽 Foreign",  ///
    just(left) place(east) box margin(small) fcolor(none) linegap(vsmall))

I'm still deciding on whether this is the first reason I've found to like emoji or the first reason to regret Stata's Unicode support.

[Hua Peng (StataCorp)]

We had some fun with emoji in Stata graph too. Unfortunately, the font support for emoji is very platform dependent. Hence only Stata on Mac is able to produce the fun looking color emoji symbols.

[wbuchanan]

Could be helpful if you're doing a study on emotion and wanted your graph to show something like a pseudo-Chernoff face?

[Nicholas Winter]

Yeah, I was thinking about the Chernoff thing. Also maybe 😄 for p less than 0.05, and 🎓 for p less than 0.05 in a dissertation.

[Tim Morris]

I'd like to see this used with nations' flags in place of text labels, e.g. in stuff like: https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...graphing-issue
Has anyone done this?