For massive datasets (e.g., Canadian Community Health Survey, UK Biobank), your laptop will crash. McGill researchers have access to via the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
If you are starting a course like or GEOG 351 , these are the most common commands you'll likely encounter for exploring and cleaning datasets: use : Imports .dta (Stata-formatted) files. import delimited : Used to bring in common .csv data files. generate (or gen ) : Creates new variables from expressions. stata mcgill