{"id":4662,"date":"2015-10-20T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2015-10-20T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T12:50:09","slug":"emacs-for-the-social-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4662","title":{"rendered":"Emacs for the Social Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ista Zahn of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences<\/a> is a long time Emacs user. A year or so ago, a user asked for an Emacs configuration with a specific set of features and Zahn realized that his configuration already had most of what the user wanted. They got together and produced a configuration aimed at Social Science users<\/a>. <\/p>\n

As you might expect, the configuration is heavily slanted towards LaTeX, git, R, Stata, SAS, and Julia. If you follow the link to his dotemacs GitHub<\/a>, you’ll see that the README (available as markdown and Org) is a nice discussion of what the configuration is trying to do as well as the actual implementation. <\/p>\n

If you’re in the Social Sciences and tired of Word and other soul and energy sucking software, be sure to give Zahn’a configuration a try. As many others before you have found, Emacs will make you more productive and probably lower your blood pressure as well1<\/a><\/sup>. Even if you’re not a social scientist, you may find something useful in the configuration—many of us write in LaTeX and use R, after all. <\/p>\n

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1<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n
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Well, at least after you get past the initial learning curve. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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