README.md

Open Stata

What is Open Stata?

Open Stata is an in-browser replication of the basic functionality of the proprietary statistical software Stata, combined with free tutorials and sample datasets to get anyone started with learning it.

Architecture

Frontend

• UI Styling: CSS and Material-UI
• Frontend structure: React
• Frontend state management: Redux
• API calls: Axios
• Authentication: jwt

Backend

• Platform: Node/Express
• Parser generator: Nearley.js
• Microservice HTTP calls: Axios
• Database: MongoDB and Mongoose
• Persistent data file storage: S3
• Authentication: Passport.js

Statistics Microservice

• Platform: Flask
• Statistics: econtools, pandas.

Demo

Landing Page and Login

Edit and run a do-file

Tutorials and log files

Uploading and describing your own dataset

Changing password

Setup

To get the frontend running, just do yarn to install packages, then yarn start.

Deployment

Frontend: Netlify https://open-stata.netlify.app/

Backend: Heroku https://open-stata.herokuapp.com/

Backend Microservice: Heroku https://open-stata-other-api.herokuapp.com/

Authors

Jared Cole	Arjun Srinivasan	Jeff Liu
Jack Keane	Val Werner	Chris Sykes

Acknowledgments

The CS52 Teaching team!