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Statistics is a scientific approach to inductive inference and prediction based on probabilistic models of the data. By extension, it covers the design of experiments and surveys to gather data for this purpose.

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Data Science as a Social Scientist?

The downvotes are because of the topic, but I'll attempt to answer your question as best I can since it's here. Data science is a term that is thrown around as loosely as Big Data. Everyone has a ro …
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Datasets understanding best practices

There are basic things you can do with any set of data: Validate values (String length tolerance, data type, formatting masks, required field presence, etc.) Range correctness (Does this seemingly c …
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Data Science oriented dataset/research question for Statistics MSc thesis

The Sunlight Foundation is an organization that is focused on opening up and encouraging non-partisan analysis of government data. There is a ton of analysis out there in the wild that can be used fo …
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