This course teaches how to organize data and code on your computer, how to write simple programs in Python to automate tasks, and how to use Stata throughout the steps of the your research process.
You will learn to
- Understand folder structure. Perform operations in the command line on files in different folders.
- Automate repeating tasks with Python and Stata scripts, using for loops and functions.
- Read and write data in various formats in Stata. Explore data and fix common data quality errors.
- Filter, aggregate, reshape, and combine data for analysis.
