William G. Jacoby,
"The Dot Plot: A Graphical Display for Labeled Data Values."
The Political Methodologist, Volume 14, Issue 1 (Pages 6-14).

Click on the following links to obtain the R script and the dataset to reproduce each of the figures from the dot plot article in TPM . All are stored as ASCII text files.

• Figure 1
• R script for Figure 1
• Data file for Figure 1, "ideal points with regions and names.txt"

• Figure 2
• R script for Figure 2
• Data file for Figure 2, "spending, with names.txt"

• Figure 3
• R script for Figure 3
• Data file for Figure 3, "regions.txt"

• Figure 4
• R script for Figure 4
• Data file for Figure 4, "import.txt"

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