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Data and Program files for Causal Inference: The Mixtape
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is ssl tweak needed for some extra protection? #24

Closed epogrebnyak closed 1 year ago

epogrebnyak commented 3 years ago

@kylebutts, great jon on python version! Curious about ssl import:

https://github.com/scunning1975/mixtape/blob/a8d007b0fa24a1b143b8401a29695ab7958ded9f/python/card.py#L9-L10

Would python code work without it?

epogrebnyak commented 3 years ago

It looks pd.read_stata may work without ssl tweak:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_stata("https://raw.github.com/scunning1975/mixtape/master/card.dta")

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1uKDeW7N0X-Z3eAmGdBU1gaF5HIvl6RJI?usp=sharing

If ssl config this is a border case - maybe put a note about it in the text or the first case, but do not include in every example? It distracts attention from the modelling a bit.

kylebutts commented 3 years ago

it's quite possible that I have installed python poorly but pd.read_stata doesn't work without the ssl tweak for me. I have no sense of how common that issue is, so I'm not sure if I should