The following #Stata packages have been updated on #SSC: 👉 alluvial v1.51 👉 geoboundary v1.22 👉 graphfunctions v1.6 👉 treemap v1.62 The figure below shows which packages got the most attention in 2025 in terms of new releases on GitHub (github.com/asjadnaqvi).

Wie #teuer ist das Backen von #Weihnachtskeksen in #Österreich geworden? Ein Thema, über das wir jedes Jahr reden, aber jetzt können wir in diesem Dashboard die Inflation für alle Zutaten unserer Lieblingsrezepte sehen: derstandard.at/story/300000... Meine erste Kooperation mit #DerStandard!

@statacorp.bsky.social package #graphfunctions has been bumped to v1.6 and provides a modular grammar-of-graphics toolkit for data visualizations. ⭐shapes: generate, transform, round edges ⭐arcs ⭐radscatter ⭐labsplit ⭐catspline More info: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC!

New #MacroCritical article on the events that led to the COPs. We start in 1972 where have the Limits to Growth, Our One Earth reports and the Stockholm conference. We then trace the developments and events leading up to the creation of the UNFCCC and the COPs: medium.com/macrocritica...

#Stata #geoboundary has been bumped to v1.22 to include #WorldBank 's latest official boundary data that now provides upto ADM2 level shapefiles. Installations+code+more info on GitHub: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon SSC!

🚀 #Stata package geoboundary has been bumped to v1.21. With the #30daymapchallenge coming up, download layers for any country or the world composite with a simple command! See more info and examples: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC!

The 11th #MacroCritical blog on @Medium is now up and talks about a rarely-taught concept: "Real Effective Exchange Rate" or #REER medium.com/macrocritica... #WorldBank and #BIS interactive visualizations on REERs also included.

10th #Macrocritical blog on #Medium is now up: "Climate Change and the System of National Accounts" A fairly long post on how to think about CC in relation to the SNA in concrete stages. Long 🧵 on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... medium.com/macrocritica...

9th #MacroCritical post on #Medium: External Debt: A Lifeline or a Liability? medium.com/macrocritica...

Next #Stata presentation will be at the University of #Bern for the Stata #Switzerland conference on 21st November 2025 🙂 This will be the 7th major presentation on developing Stata tools. Previous presentations, keynotes here: github.com/asjadnaqvi/T... @statacorp.bsky.social

Link to article on Medium: medium.com/the-stata-ga... CC'ing some fellow @statacorp.bsky.social users (that I know of): @lilymasonphd.bsky.social @juliewronski.bsky.social @cbwlezien.bsky.social @profsamperry.bsky.social @nathankalmoe.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social

#WIFOMonatsberichte: 2023 dämpfte neben Klimaschutzmaßnahmen & milder Witterung die Rezession Energieverbrauch & Treibhausgasemissionen. 2024 setzte sich diese Entwicklung fort, allerdings verlangsamte sich der Emissionsrückgang. @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social @franzsinabell.bsky.social buff.ly/P8oF7uw

A reminder! Free #webinar on 26th September (Friday), 10-11 am CET. Just one hour of awesome #StataTips. Sign up!!! dpc-software.de/webinar-tips...

The seventh #MacroCritical blog on #Medium is now up: "Balance of Payments" medium.com/macrocritica... Long thread on #LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The sixth #MacroCritical post is now up on #Medium: Supply-Use Tables: The foundation of national accounts medium.com/macrocritica... Learn the basics of #SUTs, and derive #IOTs using different formulas. We also take a look at actual data.

The fifth #MacroCritical article is now up: medium.com/macrocritica... Long 🧵 on: #LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The following two #Stata packages have been updated on #SSC: ⭐ #sunburst (v1.9): github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... ⭐ #sankey (v1.9): github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Check out the GitHub pages for the change logs, new features, and example figures. #StataViz

The fourth #MacroCritical article is now up: "Prices: A measurement of value across space and time" medium.com/macrocritica... Long 🧵 on #LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... and #X: x.com/AsjadNaqvi/s... #Medium #SNA

The third #MacroCritical article: "The Net Worth of Nations" medium.com/macrocritica... with long thread on #LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #Medium #SNA

The second #MacroCritical article: "System of National Accounts: One framework to rule them all" medium.com/macrocritica... with long thread on #LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #Medium #SNA

New post on the #MacroCritical blog on #Medium: "GDP: A crafty accounting identity" medium.com/macrocritica... Background story on #LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

🚀 #Stata #sankey has been bumped to v1.9: - ctwrap() added to wrap title labels. - ctgap() now takes on values based on percentage of total height. - labpos() now accepts lists of positions. Code plus more info: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC! Trade flows with vanilla + v1.9 options:

#Stata #sunburst has been bumped to v1.9: New option "asis" preserves the ordering of the input data as opposed to sorting it from highest to lowest values. See example below for Germany's regional and subregional population. More info on GitHub: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon SSC.

Just posted a long 🧵 on #LinkedIn on the latest #DiD paper released in 2025 and late 2024 (most came out in the last 2-3 months!) Check it out here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#Stata #ternary is now bumped 🚀 to v1.3: 👉 by() added for grouping markers. 👉 msymbol() can take on lists. 👉 palette() added for by() colors. 👉 legend() added. More info/examples/installation here: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC!

🚀 #Stata #alluvial is now bumped to v1.5: + basecode rework > much faster + option percent2 added for columnwise shares + better handling of missing values More info: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC!

New @wifo.bsky.social and @ascii-at.bsky.social Working Paper: Global demand and supply elasticities and the impact of tariff shocks www.wifo.ac.at/en/publicati... Interactive dashboard: elasticities.streamlit.app

Wo sind die Milchkühe 🐄 in Österreich? Hint: Nicht in Wien. #testkarte #map #dataviz #stata19 #AT

Am Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel #AAR2 arbeiten über 150 Wissenschafter:innen, koordiniert von @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social & @iiasa.ac.at und mit Unterstützung des @ccca.ac.at. Und es gibt einen Starterpack mit Autor:innen des Berichts 👇

In zwei Monaten veröffentlichen wir den Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel #AAR2 - eine Übersicht der wissenschaftlichen Literatur zum Klimawandel in Österreich 🇦🇹 und den Folgen sowie Vermeidungspotentiale, Anpassungsmöglichkeiten und Transformationspfaden. aar2.ccca.ac.at/de

Upgraded! #Stata19

🚀 #Stata #ridgeline ( #joyplot) is now bumped to v1.9 with new features: 👍 Sorting on marked peaks is now allowed. 👍 Peaks can now be labeled and fully customized. Test it out! More info here: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on #SSC!

🚀 #Stata #bimap v2.3 is out w a major new feature: 👉 New option "statvar()" allows us to summarize the information in each bin for a specified variable, such as population. This might be more meaningful than cell counts. More info: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC!

Cross posting from X here for the permanently displaced :) This is really an amazing database. We were looking for something like this a couple of years ago but bilateral tariffs are not so trivial to compile. Thanks for putting this together!

🚀 #Stata #ridgeline has been bumped to v1.81: ⭐ Draw multiple variables. ⭐ New option "mark()" adds maximum or mean lines to the distributions. ⭐ New option "showstats" now shows mean and SD of the plotted variables. More options and examples: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC.

🚀 #Stata #ternary is bumped to v1.2 with the following major changes: 👉 New option "scale" now scales markers to totals. 👉 "zoom" now has tighter bounds adjustable via the "pad()" option. Check GitHub for the latest version and examples: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC!

Only a few days left for the #statauk #Maps #Masterclass course on 14th March: timberlake.co.uk/courses/maps... This is a 6 hour intensive course, offered once year, where you will learn all about the latest map innovations including some unreleased features! @statacorp.bsky.social #maps

#Stata #bimap is updated to v2.2 with major functionality improvements: - Better legend control. - Option "geopre()" allows layers below the bimap. - Some options renamed. More info: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on #SSC!

Spotted in #wien

#Stata #bumpline has been bumped to v1.4 to now allow a custom "colorby()" variable. You can now highlight the streams you want! More info: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s...

🚀 Launching a new #Stata package: #tidytuesday. The package allows users to easily load the meta data and fetch the files from the #TidyTuesday repository: github.com/rfordatascie... More info/installation info on GitHub: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC.

Spotted in #wien

#Stata #streamplot is bumped to v1.9 with major changes (see below). And here is a newer version of the #USAID stream graph with the newer version. More info: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC!

A quick look at #USAID support over the years by categories. In real terms, obligations were declining till 2000 and economic development was being substituted with security spending. #policyviz #dataviz

If you guys are using underbraces and/or generating numbers tables in #LaTeX, then please start using #phantom spaces to make the text visually coherent. There are also packages that do this, e.g. #dcolumn, #siunitx for aligning decimals in regression tables.

🚀 #Stata #packages updated on #SSC: See GitHub for release notes plus other details: - geoflow: v1.0 (first release): github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... - geoboundary v1.2: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... - spider v1.53: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... - polarbar v1.7: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s...

à propos of nothing, here's a little #Stata script that sets up a standardized folder structure for new research projects (inspired by @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social) 💾 LINK: jankabatek.com/stata/folder...

🚀 Launching a new #Stata package #geoflow that allows users to generate spatial arcs. This package is a culmination of over a year of work for building stable core dependencies. It also brings us one step closer to flexibly plot network data.

🌍 #Stata #geoboundary version 1.2 is now out: ⭐ option geoframe added. ⭐ #WorldBank's official global ADM0 boundary version 3 added. ⭐ geoboundary meta, now allows fuzzy searches Other public global databases will be added soon. More info: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC!

🚀 @Stata package #joyplot is now bumped to v1.8 with the following major changes: - Rewrite of base routines. - Users can now plot multiple variables. - Variations over time requires the time() option. - New option mark() added to mark peaks. More info: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC!