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I still prefer Stata if I am completely honest with myself.

by lvl102 4y ago

binarymax 4y ago
I mean that’s fine, but is there any reason? Just throwing your half second opinion out there on a product release announcement isn’t really helpful.
spaniard89277 4y ago
Why?
humanistbot 4y ago
You're comparing apple pie and orange juice here (even worse than comparing apples and oranges). Pandas is an open-source library for people who know python programming. Stata is an expensive GUI-based suite for non-programmers. If you're not in university, government, or non-profit, Stata's single-CPU license is $840/year in the US. Even a single-CPU student license is $94/year.
- lvl102 4y ago
  Have you ever used Stata? You sound like someone who never used Stata for serious data analysis.
  - crop_rotation 4y ago
    Do you have any counter point to the above mentioned pricing? If not, that illustrates a huge difference.
  - postexitus 4y ago
    you sound more like someone who doesn't know what they are talking about.
  - crimsoneer 4y ago
    The only people still using stata are 40+ year old economics professors and the poor lab students they force into obsolescence. Everybody else is using R (if you're into econometrics) or Python (if you're into ML).
    - 0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago
      Stata is still big in pharma. There are moves happening to R, but it is a conservative space where businesses do not want to rock the boat too much with the FDA. If nothing else as a Python user, I think the pinning/reproducibility story in R still has quite a ways to go.
    - lvl102 4y ago
      Oh wow. I stand corrected. You sound like someone with decades of experience.
dr_kiszonka 4y ago
Stata has wonderful documentation and tons of useful tools and visualizations. I stopped using it about 7 years ago because of the price and I didn't like the scripting language. Still, if someone asked me to quickly run a non-trivial regression model and I had a copy of Stata, I would probably use it. (I have just learned about PyStata, which is very interesting...)

I still prefer Stata if I am completely honest with myself.

by lvl102 4y ago

I still prefer Stata if I am completely honest with myself.

I mean that’s fine, but is there any reason? Just throwing your half second opinion out there on a product release announcement isn’t really helpful.

spaniard89277 4y ago

Why?

humanistbot 4y ago

You're comparing apple pie and orange juice here (even worse than comparing apples and oranges). Pandas is an open-source library for people who know python programming. Stata is an expensive GUI-based suite for non-programmers. If you're not in university, government, or non-profit, Stata's single-CPU license is $840/year in the US. Even a single-CPU student license is $94/year.

lvl102 4y ago
Have you ever used Stata? You sound like someone who never used Stata for serious data analysis.
- crop_rotation 4y ago
  Do you have any counter point to the above mentioned pricing? If not, that illustrates a huge difference.
- postexitus 4y ago
  you sound more like someone who doesn't know what they are talking about.
- crimsoneer 4y ago
  The only people still using stata are 40+ year old economics professors and the poor lab students they force into obsolescence. Everybody else is using R (if you're into econometrics) or Python (if you're into ML).
  - 0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago
    Stata is still big in pharma. There are moves happening to R, but it is a conservative space where businesses do not want to rock the boat too much with the FDA. If nothing else as a Python user, I think the pinning/reproducibility story in R still has quite a ways to go.
  - lvl102 4y ago
    Oh wow. I stand corrected. You sound like someone with decades of experience.

dr_kiszonka 4y ago

Stata has wonderful documentation and tons of useful tools and visualizations. I stopped using it about 7 years ago because of the price and I didn't like the scripting language. Still, if someone asked me to quickly run a non-trivial regression model and I had a copy of Stata, I would probably use it. (I have just learned about PyStata, which is very interesting...)