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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 RealAnalysis on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:35PM (#15078116)
I'm really just wanting to do my own self research on topics and datasets that seem interesting, but also want to ensure the analysis im doing is sound.
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Re:Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? by usgroup on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:14AM (#15079264)
Learn to cross validate. Typically by predicting something out-of-sample. Or by sense checking what your model says about things you're sure about.
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