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Stata/Python integration part 2: Three ways to use Python in Stata

25 August 2020 No comments

In my last post, I showed you how to install Python and set up Stata to use Python. Now, we’re ready to use Python. There are three ways to use Python within Stata: calling Python interactively, including Python code in do-files and ado-files, and executing Python script files. Each is useful in different circumstances, so I will demonstrate all three. The examples are intentionally simple and somewhat silly. I’ll show you some more complex examples in future posts, but I want to keep things simple in this post. Read more…

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Stata/Python integration part 1: Setting up Stata to use Python

18 August 2020 No comments

Python integration is one of the most exciting features in Stata 16. There are thousands of free Python packages that you can use to access and process data from the Internet, visualize data, explore data using machine-learning algorithms, and much more. You can use these Python packages interactively within Stata or incorporate Python code into your do-files. And there are a growing number of community-contributed commands that have familiar, Stata-style syntax that use Python packages as the computational engine. But there are a few things that we must do before we can use Python in Stata. This blog post will show you how to set up Stata to use Python. Read more…

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