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One of the many privileges of a life in professional academia is the right to set one’s own agenda. As a tenured professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, 20 years into an academic career, I’m freer than ever before to experiment and

One of the many privileges of a life in professional academia is the right to set one’s own agenda. As a tenured professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, 20 years into an academic career, I’m freer than ever before to experiment and

What programming languages are popular for statistics and data science? What tools are useful for working with those languages? Should I learn R or Python, or stick with something easier like Stata? If you’ve asked yourself these or similar questions

What programming languages are popular for statistics and data science? What tools are useful for working with those languages? Should I learn R or Python, or stick with something easier like Stata? If you’ve asked yourself these or similar questions