Recently, I’ve been using Stata’s -shp2dta- command to convert some shapefiles to stata format, grabbing Lat/Lon data and merging into another dataset. There were several compressed shapefiles I wanted to download contained in a directory from the web. I could manually download each file and uncompress each one but that would be time consuming. Also, [...]

Kwanghui Lim of Core Economics notes in a recent blog post that: “Ironically, it is now easier to download and install linux than it is to install Windows 7.” The quote comes from the author’s experience installing the new Windows 7 operating system. I had the pleasure of trying out the beta release of Windows [...]