This thread is Part 2 of my #EconTwitter tweetorial on how to create effective figures 📈📉📊 in @Stata. Today: designing effective Legends and Labels.

Part 1 on choosing & customizing Defaults started here.

https://twitter.com/michaelstepner/status/1201621569736445957

<begin thread> Custom legends are an enormous opportunity to make your figures more effective:

- Readers can't interpret your figure without understanding the legend
- The default legend is rarely the easiest to understand

You can improve a legend by adjusting the location🎯 and colors🎨 2/11

Figures 📈📉📊 are the most important tool for communicating results in a slide deck, and one of the key tools in a paper.

Here's a tweetorial for #EconTwitter on how to create effective figures in @Stata. Illustrated with examples from my JMP. <thread>

michaelstepner.com/jmp/ Creating effective figures takes only two steps!!

1. Pick good defaults
2. Question all the defaults😅

The question to ask yourself: How do I get my message across, with a minimum amount of effort from the reader?

The 💻 knows your data, but it doesn't know your message. 2/11

Hi, I'm Michael! You might know me as the author of binscatter and maptile. But these days, I'd prefer you know me as the author of "The Insurance Value of Redistributive Taxes and Transfers".

…yes, I'd love to tell you about my job market paper.👇🏼
michaelstepner.com/jmp/ People face a lot of income risk during their lives. Layoffs and illness at working ages cause long-term earnings declines. So what insures people against those risks?

Unemployment and disability benefits provide social insurance, of course. But they're less than half the story.