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by cuchoi 3223 days ago
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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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!
Yes, it is mostly government data! Also, this year there are presidential election in Chile so there is a bias towards that topic.
I really like it :-)

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

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.

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.