It would certainly be useful in the land economy team here (SRUC). As you
mention, it seems to be an economist thing.

I'd be happy to chip in help, but have never used stata. I am proficient in
R, though.

Mike

On 9 February 2017 at 23:23, Garret S. Christensen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone else encounter a lot of Stata users in their field? Are there
> good existing resources for teaching R to these folks, or would anyone be
> interested in helping me develop/curate them?
>
> I'm an economist, and I'd say 80+% of our work (mine included) is in
> Stata. I've seen a few things along this line (Mostly Harmless
> Econometrics <https://github.com/vikjam/mostly-harmless-replication> in
> R, Stata, Python, and Julia, a quick dplyr guide
> <http://johnricco.github.io/2016/06/14/stata-dplyr/>) but no lesson. I've
> taught a couple workshops on reproducible research at the World Bank, and I
> know their big data/programming people would be happy if more of the
> researchers their learned R and its dynamic documents capabilities.
>
> Thanks,
> Garret
>
> --
> Garret Christensen, PhD
> Assistant Project Scientist, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the
> Social Sciences <http://bitss.org>
> Data Science Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science
> <http://bids.berkeley.edu>
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