Radar diagram with values on spikes

[Michael Schuster]

I have a radar diagram with two variables and 12 different observations. The only thing I want to know is, if I could add the values for every spike in addtition to my axis? I will give you an example below, how I would like to have it. Here is an example code:

ssc install radar

sysuse auto, clear

radar make turn mpg trunk if foreign, title(Radar graph) lc(red blue green) lw(*1 *2 *4) rlabel(0 12 14 18 50)

[Nick Cox]

I don't have an answer to #1. I just want to broaden any discussion.

Here's Adam Ross Nelson on Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamRossN...06376333099008

Love the spider or radar plots! Love them. It’s always amazing to me the level of dislike (hate) for them. The threads in
@Stata
#StataList regarding this plotting strategy are intense!!!!

Not dislike (hate) here -- just almighty puzzlement that these are found effective by anybody (Wanting to show something a bit different from run-of-the-mill graphs is a motive I would recognise but do not admire or at least do not consider paramount.)

Of course, the data are chosen just to show the principle, but the units are all completely different.

By all means somebody post a real data example with data they care about so that people can discuss (or think about) pluses and minuses here.


PS Detail: red and green do not go well together regardless of whether you vary something else too.

PS Detail: what do people do about zero or negative values?

The code for mine is

. sysuse auto, clear
(1978 automobile data)

. 
. multidot mpg turn trunk if foreign, over(make) by(title(Not a radar graph) row(1))

.
See https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...ailable-on-ssc for more examples. (Yes, you can show numbers too.)

[Nick Cox]

You didn't get a straight answer to your question. I guess you need to email the program author Adrian Mander directly, as he is a member here, but not active.