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A comment on Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby?.

Re:Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? by cuchoi on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:42PM (#15077574)
With a team of data-scientists-as-a-hobby, we are building www.17-56.cl, which displays insights from data about Chile. It is in Spanish, but feel free to look around. For example, I created a map that displays the votation in the Chilean primary elections: http://fernandoi.cl/mapascomunales/primarias/primarias.html. Simple, but informative and fun.

Probably as a hobby you will not be able to write an analysis that will get published in a paper, but there is a lot of descriptive analysis out there that can be very interesting.

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Re:Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? by ivm on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:13AM (#15081221)
Awesome, I saw that we have so much data published by the government but it was always buried in endless spreadsheets. Thanks for working on this!
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Re:Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? by cuchoi on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:14PM (#15084646)
Yes, it is mostly government data! Also, this year there are presidential election in Chile so there is a bias towards that topic.
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Re:Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? by eb0la on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:29AM (#15089508)
I really like it :-)

Never underestimate descriptive analysis. After all, that's the first step you take before digging further in the data.

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Re:Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? by RealAnalysis on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:56PM (#15077649)
How do you know your statistical analysis is good?

I'm rereading my intro to stats book and would like to use those skills to make good analysis.

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Re:Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? by cuchoi on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:12PM (#15084636)
It depends on the type of analysis you are doing. It is very difficult to generalize. If you are looking for causation, I would say to not even try it unless you are writing a paper.
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