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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Data in R for Everyone. Packages in R for Everyone. People in R for Everyone. Errata for R for Everyone. Hates carrots and loves visiting nursing homes in a pedobear costume. New York City Is One of the Most Important Places for Data Science in the World. May 18, 2016. Highlights from the 2016 New York R Conference. Originally posted on www.work-bench.com. You might be asking yourself, How was the 2016 New York R Conference? And 2) Writing better code.
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EB Corporate Blog: Sports Industry 101: Breaking Into The Business Of Sports
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Friday, October 10, 2014. Sports Industry 101: Breaking Into The Business Of Sports. So you want to work in the sports industry? Like many students and young professionals pursuing an education in sports management and looking to make their big break into the business of sports, long gone are the days when working in industry is limited to selling tickets or running coverage of the local professional team for your hometown paper. Still up for the challenge? Sports Management Education Programs. Over the ...
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Greater Than Plus Minus: PLAY
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160; Greater Than Plus Minus. Links to a series of articles. Introduction. Defining marginal contribution. PLAY, the playmaking metric. A link to the full paper. Can be found here. PLAY is a metric for quantifying playmaking ability in hockey that is better than assists in two quantifiable ways: (1) it is more consistent than assists, and (2) it is better than assists at predicting future assists. Two main reasons for the improvement are:. 2 It accounts for strength of teammates. In Part 2 of this series...
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Greater Than Plus Minus: Goalies
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160; Greater Than Plus Minus. In this series of articles, we describe a Bayesian approach to analyzing goalies that has these benefits over using Even Strength SV% (ESSV%):. It is easier to compare goalies who have faced a different number of shots. We get error bounds for our estimates. Our approach allows us to answer a variety of questions like "What is the probability that Goalie A is better than Goalie B? And "What is the probability that Goalie A's true ESSV% is above .920? Part 5 - coming soon.
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Blog Don't Lie: April 2011
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Thursday, April 28, 2011. ESPN's Bill Simmons to Launch Grantland. Today on ESPN's PR site, MediaZone. Conceived by ESPN's Bill Simmons - to Launch in June. You can read more about the announcement via the first link above. What do you expect from Grantland? Posted by jay zo. Links to this post. Interview with a Sports Blogger: Jed, Sports-Glutton.com. Jed runs both sports-glutton.com. Sports blogging is the main course, and the meal starts now. Lets dig in. Posted by jay zo. Links to this post. This wee...
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The Hot Hand in Sports: December 2014
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The Hot Hand in Sports. Analyzing Sports Streakiness with Texas Tech Professor Alan Reifman.(See twitter.com/alanreifman for more frequent postings). Monday, December 01, 2014. Buy "Hot Hand" Book as a Gift and Get Free Video Dedication. From today, Cyber Monday, until December 24, if you buy the book. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Hot Hand" the book is here! New and used versions are available for $1 or so from independent vendors on Amazon.com. Click on book image to get there. ESPN The Magazine s annual...
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In Boston again for the Sloan Sports Conference this weekend | RefAnalytics.com
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In Boston again for the Sloan Sports Conference this weekend. We are now in Boston for our fifth MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. That takes place Friday and Saturday. Although we’ve been fairly quiet on Twitter this season (and on this site), we’ve been busier than ever! We also recently contributed to a story a major analytics site should be publishing in the next week or two, so we’ll let you know when that story gets published. And let’s try to connect in person. February 26, 2015.
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Football Analytics | Analyse Football
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A visual and data-driven view of Football. All posts in category Football Analytics. MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2013: Soccer Analytics Panel. Panelists : Chris Anderson. The makeup of this year’s panel is very different from that of Soccer Panel at SSAC 2012. The Ballroom was almost full and this was a bigger ballroom than that of the last year’s conference. (My totally un-scientific method of measuring crowd sizes puts “almost full” “75% full of last year”). Talking about how he uses analytics.
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Premier League | Analyse Football
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A visual and data-driven view of Football. All posts in category Premier League. MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2013: Soccer Analytics Panel. Panelists : Chris Anderson. The makeup of this year’s panel is very different from that of Soccer Panel at SSAC 2012. The Ballroom was almost full and this was a bigger ballroom than that of the last year’s conference. (My totally un-scientific method of measuring crowd sizes puts “almost full” “75% full of last year”). Metrics – what do we have today? Blake...
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