Python/Stata

[josef...@gmail.com]

http://stata.com/meeting/new-orleans13/abstracts/#fiedler
"Reimagining a Stata/Python combination"

I just saw this. A foreign language at the Stata conference ?

Josef

[Skipper Seabold]

Heh, SPSS and ArcGIS python bindings may be pushing this. Would be
nice if he cut through the mystery a bit and had some information about
how he achieves the interaction in his abstract.

Skipper

[josef...@gmail.com]

the information is very sparse, but it made it into the list of
selected presentations in the printed Stata News, and two years in a
row at the conference might indicate that they want to push this a
bit.

SPSS has both R and python interfaces. From the examples in their
recipe site, it looks like R is more popular as plugin.

Josef

>
> Skipper

[josef...@gmail.com]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:42 PM, <josef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Skipper Seabold <jsse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:28 PM, <josef...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://stata.com/meeting/new-orleans13/abstracts/#fiedler
>>> "Reimagining a Stata/Python combination"
>>>
>>> I just saw this. A foreign language at the Stata conference ?
>>>
>>
>> Heh, SPSS and ArcGIS python bindings may be pushing this. Would be
>> nice if he cut through the mystery a bit and had some information about
>> how he achieves the interaction in his abstract.
>
> the information is very sparse, but it made it into the list of
> selected presentations in the printed Stata News, and two years in a
> row at the conference might indicate that they want to push this a
> bit.

While looking for some Stata answers, I found this again.

here are the slides
http://repec.org/norl13/fiedler.pdf

Why add python?

quote:
"The first, obvious reason for adding Python is that doing so would
add functionality. There is a large
community of people using Python for data analysis, numerical
computing, scientific computing, etc.
As a consequence, there is a lot of Python code for doing the kinds of
things that Stata users do. Having
access to this code would expand what users can do in Stata, or at
least expand what can be done
practically.
Second, when there is overlap in what can be done in Stata and Python,
sometimes it’ll be easier to do
it in Python.
Finally, one of the things Python programmers will consistently tell
you is that Python is a fun
language to use."


http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s457688.html

not tried out yet.

Josef