The local statistics office releases lots of files in Stata format. Journalists and others often don’t know how to open these files in Excel (i.e. you can’t without a paid plugin) or don’t want to pay the ridiculous Stata software prices for basically a spreadsheet. Somehow I wasn’t able to find this tool online somewhere.
Luckily Python has a rich ecosystem of free and open-source code that can convert Stata files to whatever you want.
This little app only took about 20 minutes to make, but it works very well!