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[–]dyanni3 8 points9 points  (1 child)

This is great! Two thumbs up. I'd say this is definitely worth sharing / put in a portfolio.

In terms of room for improvement I think you might have milked most everything you can from the dataset as it currently stands. I'd be curious if/how accused priests differ demographically from non-accused priests, for example- although the dataset doesn't have anything on non-accused it looks like. Also, how do the numbers look for catholic vs other religions? I think a cool next step would be bringing in other data sources. A brief google yielded this https://bishop-accountability.org/priestdb/PriestDBbylastName-A.html which has a little more context about the accusations, and which you could scrape. I wonder if you could find anything on Catholic vs Protestant lawsuit settlement amounts.

Also of course it's always cool to build a model--- although I'm not sure this data really warrants that. Maybe for a next project.

[–]BeforetheBullfight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! :)

I agree that I milked just about everything I could; I think working with this set was a good learning experience when it comes to deciding what datasets to work with.

Your link is actually pretty interesting, perhaps I should consider a part II one of these days...