I'm looking to automate the process of converting many .CSV files into .DTA files via Python. .DTA files is the filetype that is handled by the Stata Statistics language. I have not been able to ...

I've inherited a data file saved in the Stata .dta format. I can load it in with scikits.statsmodels genfromdta() function. This puts my data into a 1-dimensional NumPy array, where each entry is a...

I have downloaded spatial data from the USGS website that comes in a .dat format, which I can't read in textedit either - it just says "../ofr041189it03/vat.adf". I am familiar with STATA, ArcGIS, ...