Overlapping label names in Box Plots

[Sam Golub]

I'm trying to do a box plot and display the extreme outliers with a label. Some of the labels are very close and overlap, thus making it impossible to read.

Here is what i currently have as my code:
graph box totaldeposits if year > 1995 & year < 1998, marker(1, mlabel(organizationname)) over(year)

Any ideas?

[Marcos Almeida]

Welcome to the Stata Forum / Statalist.

There is no data to work on. Hazarding a guess, you may fiddle with font size, position of the labels, change labels into short codes (say, instead of Microsoft, just MS), etc. You may also create a variable to tag the observations whose label you wish to display.