Simon Tournier<p>Do you know Stata?</p><p>« a general-purpose statistical proprietary software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. It is used by researchers in many fields, including biomedicine, economics, epidemiology, and sociology. »</p><p>Guess how much does it cost? $USD ~1000 per year! Option government/nonprofit single-user. Bang!</p><p>And guess what?</p><p>For this price, you have only the “fast“ option, not “twice as fast”, neither “almost four times as fast” or neither even “even faster”. Ahah!</p><p>Crazy to read we’re still there in 2025 about <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/ReproducibleResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReproducibleResearch</span></a> and <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> in some academic fields…</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://www.stata.com/order/new/gov/single-user-licenses/dl/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">stata.com/order/new/gov/single</span><span class="invisible">-user-licenses/dl/</span></a></p>