Dear All,

I am always fascinated seeing how much useful information can be derived from even the simplest 2-way scatter plot, such as this Pisa chart:

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Yet many of the Stata scatter plots experience the same handicap, something like this one here:
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I wonder if there is any procedure written for Stata's scatter plots to optimize the placement of labels and adding lines (like for "Norway" or "Belgium" on the first graph).

If yes, please point me into the right direction.

Thank you, Sergiy Radyakin