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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 pro
by 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 agoHave you ever used Stata? You sound like someone who never used Stata for serious data analysis.
- crop_rotation 4y agoDo you have any counter point to the above mentioned pricing? If not, that illustrates a huge difference.
- postexitus 4y agoyou sound more like someone who doesn't know what they are talking about.
- crimsoneer 4y agoThe 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 agoStata 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 agoOh wow. I stand corrected. You sound like someone with decades of experience.