The Glasgow friendship movie

Chapter 14, Animating change.

The three waves of the Glasgow friendship network, played one after another. Each wave gets its own layout, started from the positions of the wave before, so the girls drift as the network changes.

On a phone or in a narrow window, open the movie page on its own.

. nwwebuse glasgow, nwclear
. nwmovie glasgow1 glasgow2 glasgow3, fname(glasgow_movie) noopen

The movie as a video

export() writes the same movie as a video or an animated GIF, with the format set by the file’s extension (.mp4, .webm or .gif); duration() sets the milliseconds for each change from one wave to the next.

. nwmovie glasgow1 glasgow2 glasgow3, duration(2000) export(glasgow.mp4) replace

export() needs nwcommands 3.16.0 or later.

Source

Data: an excerpt of the Teenage Friends and Lifestyle Study. See the data sets page.