In my ongoing search to further improve table layout for my beamer-presentations, I just came across a simple way to change the font color in tables. This comes in handy, for example, to highlight results regression results in specific tables.
Continue readingTo combine multiple figures in one figure environment in LaTeX, e.g. to show scatter plots for different groups, the usepackage subfig is there to help. It allows to create several subfigures while also adjusting the subtitles of each of the subfigures. Simple call the package in the preamble by adding
For certain cleaning jobs, it can be useful to duplicate an observation (often only temporarily). To create a identical copy of an observation, just type
Continue readingTo avoid paragraphs ending with a single line on the following page often looks a bit ugly. Especially when they are then followed by figures or tables. Single lines of a page-overlapping paragraph are called “widows” and “orphans”. How can we tell TeX to avoid those? With the following code, you tell TeX that it should put a penalty on these types of layouts. Setting this penalty very high (typically 10.000) avoids widows and orphans almost entirely. Just add the following code in the preamble of your document.
\clubpenalty = 10000
\widowpenalty = 10000 \displaywidowpenalty = 10000
When I wanted to store percentiles in a local, e.g. to indicate the median in a figure, I used to first
Continue readingIf you ever found a good looking Stata figure saved as Stata’s own .gph and wondered how this was produced, you can simply look up the code that is stored in the file’s meta data.
Ever wondered how to run regressions on different datasets simulatenously on your Mac? While this is easy in Windows, you have to use the terminal to have several Stata sessions open at the same time.
Continue readingWith an increasing number of beamers supporting 16:9 aspect ratio of your presentation slides, it is fairly easy to implement this in beamertex. Simply add “aspectratio=169” to the options in document class command in the first line of your latex file:
\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
That’s it!
This is not really new, but still comes in handy when formatting text in Stata figures. With a relatively simple code, you can make write text bold, in italics, and even greek letters
This special text is entered in curly brackets “{…}”:
When I started, I mainly checked new articles of my favorite journals and working paper series through email newsletters. To avoid to get too many emails, you can also subscribe to new articles through RSS-feeds (Really Simple Syndication). For me, the main advantage is that I can easily scroll through a lot of new articles at once in one place.
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