Matthew Dobson's Final Project for Stata Practicum This is my final project for the Stata Practicum course that aims to analyze different factors of the 2017 Wayne County Tax Foreclosure Auction. It expects that the following packages will be activated/installed: - grmap - spshape2dta - tabout - outreg2 To get started edit the file in this directory titled main. On line 7 you need to define the base path to the directory. This will setup the current working directory. **Update this line with the location of the current working directory global root "/Users/mdobs/Desktop/stata_practicum/final_project" A brief explanation of top level folders and files in this stata project: - main.do: The main entry point for the stata program - doc: Contains the project writeup in word and pdf format - do: Contains do files that will be used by the main stata program to execute analysis and create graphs - graphs: Contains all graphs that will be generated by the stata program - outreg: Contains all the output tables from the outreg2 program - log: Contains .smcl and .pdf files from stata log output - tabout: Contains all tabout output - graph_edit_files: Contains .grec subroutines needed to edit two graphs - data: Contains all the .dta, .csv, and .shp files needed to run analysis and generate maps that appear in the writeup