I’ve been asked in the past for software recommendations. Almost all of these are standard.<\/p>\n
My documents are almost always typeset in LaTeX. I use MiKTeX<\/a> to compile the documents. MiKTeX is great, and free. I use beamer<\/a> to generate presentations.<\/p>\n Before compiling documents, I use WinEdt<\/a> to type them up. WinEdt works seamlessly with MiKTeX, and is a good all-round text editor. Its ability to select columns of text is often useful for coding. I think a student licence costs about $25.<\/p>\n I haven’t found a cloud storage system that’s better than Dropbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n When dealing with data, I use Stata<\/a> 90% of the time. In terms of getting Stata output into your document, the world owes a sincere debt of gratitude to Ben Jann for estout<\/a>. Use estout to save your output as an external .tex file, and then \\input{} it into your TeX code. It will automatically update the table the next time you compile.<\/p>\n Some things are easier done in R<\/a> than in Stata. R is counter-intuitive for a lot of people. RStudio<\/a> can make it easier. Both of these are free.<\/p>\n I use Mathematica<\/a> to check any derivations for stray errors. It is from the same people who give us Wolfram Alpha. It can perform calculus\/simplify symbolic algebra, so is a great tool for unwieldy models.<\/p>\n Rather than run loops in Stata, I often prefer to write loops in JavaScript<\/a> that do the same thing. This is an idiosyncratic preference.<\/p>\n This blog runs on WordPress<\/a>. It’s free. This website is hosted by Gandi<\/a>, who I’ve had no problems with. I keep a track of who visits using the excellent (and free) StatCounter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been asked in the past for software recommendations. Almost all of these are standard. My documents are almost always typeset in LaTeX. I use MiKTeX to compile the documents. MiKTeX is great, and free.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}