Re: st: Summer North American Stata Users Group meetings

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

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We have a number of speakers with equal ingenuity I see. These are all  
great examples of how teachers of Stata might set up their materials.  
Come to think of it, they remind me now of Stas' (I think) regression  
tutorial that I saw way back when I used Stata 7. In any case, if one  
is teaching Stata to a class, building the materials this way (into  
the viewer) might be a good idea. What does Richard Williams think?  
Too much work for the teacher?

Thanks!


On Sep 1, 2008, at 2:40 AM, Ben Jann wrote:


> I also did a number of SMCL talks, using a slightly different
> approach, I think. See, for example,
> http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/dsug07/01.html.
>
> Instructions:
> 1. Extract ZIP archive into a directory.
> 2. -cd- to the directory in Stata.
> 3. Type -help Essen07_jann-
>
> ben
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk 
> > wrote:
>
> > --- David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu> wrote:
> > > Maarten Buis' presentation using Stata is a model one for teaching
> > > something using Stata. He uses the viewer to show code and slides,
> > > but hyperlinks in .do files to execute code, etc. Really effective.
> > > There are of course bits and pieces of this approach in existing
> > > help files, but here it is done more completely.
> > As much as I would like to take all the credit, honesty compells me  
> > to
> > say that I learned most of this from a presentation by Nick Cox at  
> > the
> > 2007 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users' Group Meeting
> > ( http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/nsug07.html ), and he informed me that
> > he in turn learned most of it from a talk by Vince Wiggins at the  
> > 2004
> > United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meeting
> > ( http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/usug04.html )
> >
> > Although I like this way of presenting, it is not the most user
> > friendly way of distributing the presentation: the presentation
> > consists of a .zip file with 77 different files. To help make sense  
> > of
> > it, it does contain a readme.txt explaining where to get started, but
> > some have understandably overlooked that file and got lost. For that
> > reason I have copied the content of the readme.txt below:
> >
> > ================== begin readme.txt ========================
> > The following steps need to be taken in order to view this
> > presentation:
> >
> > 1. Extract the files in the .zip file to a separate directory.
> > 2. Start Stata
> > 3. Use -cd- to change to directory where you extracted the files from
> > the .zip file.
> > 4. Type -view mlbsnasug08.smcl-
> > =================== end readme.txt =========================
> >
> > -- Maarten
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Maarten L. Buis
> > Department of Social Research Methodology
> > Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> > Boelelaan 1081
> > 1081 HV Amsterdam
> > The Netherlands
> >
> > visiting address:
> > Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
> >
> > +31 20 5986715
> >
> > http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
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