Two Years of Stata (In Numbers)

​I recently celebrated my Birthday, which is an occasion where I can’t help but reminisce about the past or stop over-thinking about the future.  This also (closely) marks my two-year work anniversary, which precedes my two years of experience at the Energy Commission, two years of Graduate School, and that one year at UC Davis where I first learned about this great software called STATA.  Little did I know back then that it was a very big deal to spell Stata correctly.

In looking back at my experience at work, it’s easy to forget what I have done, and even easier to forget what I do on a day-to-day basis.  In order to help jog my memory, I wrote a crawler that scrapes all of our directories and all my personal files for any do-files I have written in these past two years.  I image the Twelve Days of Christmas tune when going over this list… but I really shouldn’t.

8 million characters typed
2 million words a-written
200,000 lines of codes
1,700 do-files
1,250 SQL statements
830 graphs
230 times invoking Mata
100 programs
All influenced by 3 coworkers that greatly shaped my code.

To create these numbers, I made good use of dir(), along with the fileread and filewrite functions. For a more detailed list of what I like to start my lines with, check out the attachment below!

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