Monday, April 15, 2019

Question about Publicizing Data Visualizations

Question:
 I'm practicing my STATA coding skills and I was wondering,

-          would I be violating any regulations if I were to graph any interesting associations and post the graphs on social media?

For example, if I create graphs using the Canadian Community Health Survey PUMF and post the graphs on my social media, would I be breaching any of the policies in the Data use restrictions?

Please let me know as I think it would be interesting to post a few data visualization series across my social media profiles.

Answer:
As long as the researcher is citing Statistics Canada, it shouldn’t be a problem!