Display without map

[startz]

I'm sure I've just forgotten something obvious, but is there a way to display the underlying data for a mapped series without removing the map?

[EViews Glenn]

There's a combo on the series toolbar. Change from Default to Raw Data,

[startz]

I probably knew that, or at least should have

To add to the "it would be nice list," how about a display option that shows both the map and the raw data. I'm regularly trying to remember things like GESTCEN=91 for Washington State. To figure that out now you have to open the series, choose properties to get the Valmap, open the valmap and look through it. (I guess one could also use @unmap, but that's a bit of a pain.)

[EViews Glenn]

The suggestion is interesting, but violates a number of rules for series display and my guess is that it would be hard to implement.

Note that the @unmap is only necessary if you are starting with the alpha series and trying to map to numeric using a map. If you are starting with a mapped series, you can simply generate a new one using the standard series assignment and go from there. You could then do an n-way to obtain the mapping, but that's obviously overkill.

I think the easiest way to do what you want to do is to set a subsample as in

smpl if @map(y)="WA"

and then use the combo in the series display as above.

[startz]

I bring in files generated by dataferret that create Stata files that I then read into EViews. The maps are things like fmx11, fmx12, etc. So knowing the map name isn't obvious.

Would it really be hard to have a display option that showed

Washington {91}

or

91 {Washington}

in a cell?

[EViews Glenn]

It can be done that way -- I hadn't been thinking of putting the two values in a single cell -- but I suspect that this might be visually confusing and doesn't work in all cases. Suppose, for example, the unmapped cell is "Washington {91}{" and the mapped is "Washington", we would then put "Washington {91}{ {Washington}" in your display cell. This display cell cannot be distinguished from the unmapped "Washington" and the mapped value "91}{ {Washington". Now I know that most people won't do this, but part of what we have to do on this end is think about gotchas. I suspect that for any method of displaying the two parts of the mapped value, we can come up with problem cases.

Still, I can understand why you want this feature so I'll put in on the list of things to consider.

But I will point out that if that's all you want (I thought you only wanted a single map value), why don't you just generate a new series equal to the original, then show the two in a group? Yes you have to create a new series (and possibly delete it), but isn't that better than waiting for the stupid developers to give you what you want?

[startz]

It can be done that way -- I hadn't been thinking of putting the two values in a single cell -- but I suspect that this might be visually confusing and doesn't work in all cases. Suppose, for example, the unmapped cell is "Washington {91}{" and the mapped is "Washington", we would then put "Washington {91}{ {Washington}" in your display cell. This display cell cannot be distinguished from the unmapped "Washington" and the mapped value "91}{ {Washington". Now I know that most people won't do this, but part of what we have to do on this end is think about gotchas. I suspect that for any method of displaying the two parts of the mapped value, we can come up with problem cases.

... but isn't that better than waiting for the stupid developers to give you what you want?

(a) Would it help any to use some color on cell edges to indicate mapped values or mapped+raw values as a visual clue?
(b) EViews doesn't have any stupid developers.

[EViews Glenn]

Possibly, but you really need to color in-cell to disambiguate the cell contents and that's much harder.