Visual Guide to Stata Graphics
Downloading Data, Schemes and Programs

The 12 datasets (.dta files), 18 schemes (.scheme files), as well as the colormap program provided below were used to produce the graphs in the book A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics by Michael Mitchell. You can download the datasets from within Stata using the net command. At the Stata prompt, type 
 
      . net from http://www.stata-press.com/data/vgsg/
      . net describe vgsg
      . net get vgsg
You can download the schemes and the colormap program by further typing. 
 
      . net install vgsg
If you do not have an Internet connection from within Stata, you can download one of the following files:
vgsg.zip PKZIP format, ??K
vgsg.tar.Z Unix tar.Z format ??K
We suggest that you create a new directory and copy the materials there