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Re: Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby?

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Post by ivm » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 1:13 PM UTC

cuchoi wrote: post #3

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…

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!

Re: Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby?

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Post by jklein11 » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 2:24 PM UTC

gesman wrote: post #9

Built model + app (Splunk app) to predict medicare and opioid prescription fraud based on published medicare claims datasets at data.cms.gov

How did you know which claims were fraudulent?

Re: Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby?

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Post by SirLJ » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 4:45 PM UTC

Absolutely, been doing it for years with stock market data and Python - developing trading algos and very successfully I might add, actually I can retire tomorrow, but every year I am postponing, because of the team I lead...

Re: Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby?

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Post by riku_iki » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

My project is https://finintelligence.com

It provides access to public/private companies financials, documents search and some custom reports. I have tons of ideas in my mind: configurable stream of companies events, alerts, intelligent search for companies data, etc.

I launched it just about a month ago, so it is still in a semi-stealth prototype mode, but I am happy to receive any feedback, feature requests and first real users )

Re: Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby?

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Post by cuchoi » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 8:12 PM UTC

RealAnalysis wrote: post #4

cuchoi wrote: post #3

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…

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.

Re: Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby?

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Post by cuchoi » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 8:14 PM UTC

ivm wrote: post #11

cuchoi wrote: post #3

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…

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.

Re: Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby?

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Post by eb0la » Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 12:29 PM UTC

cuchoi wrote: post #3

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…

I really like it :-)

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

Re: Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby?

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Post by navalsaini » Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 7:44 PM UTC

I like doing data science courses for fun. These days I am reading CS 229 mathematics and a book Python Machine Learning. Once in a while I get tired of coding in JS, or adding things to side projects; and then I like doing simple learning, just for the sake of learning and trying to understand (no strings attached). I like the maths part of data-science and maybe would pursue it as a theoretical endeavor. Or just repeat what people have posted on GitHub and see the results - like kids soldiering circuits. It would be fun to take part in some Kaggle competitions next year, around healthcare. Back in 2014, I spent some time working on an SVM classifier for news.