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Analysing Money’s Effect on Football Using Multilevel Regression

What if I told you that we can use statistics to laugh at the silly football teams too?
Multilevel Regression
Statistics
R
Oct 9, 2024

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Calculating a Football Team’s Strength of Schedule

It may not be the metric you want, but it’s also not the metric you need.
Football Analytics
Statistics
R
Apr 2, 2024

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Missing Data Matters (Part II) - Solutions

Dealing with your missing data is like eating your greens. You only do it so you can judge others that don’t.
Missing Data
Imputation
Statistics
R
Mar 26, 2024

An AI generated image of a red milk carton that has a creepy, slightly distorted outline of a face on the side of the carton, with text underneath the person's face appearing to say Data Missing (in the typically gibberish way that generative models draw text). The carton stands in front of a white-tiled wall and casts an ominous shadow on a white countertop.

Missing Data Matters (Part I): Mechanisms

Missing values hate him! See how this data scientist turned NAs into NOs using this one simple trick!
Missing Data
Statistics
R
Mar 14, 2024

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Setting up Netlify Redirects With Quarto

Configuring Netlify redirects when building Quarto websites using continuous deployment.
Netlify
Quarto
Web Development
R
Mar 1, 2024

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Developing Offensive Ratings Using Desirability Functions

Ranking football players using desirability2 and multivariate optimisation.
Optimisation
Football Analytics
R
Feb 22, 2024

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A Cheatsheet for Building Multilevel Models in R

A short introduction to basic multilevel modelling syntax in R (using lme4, brms or rstanarm).
Multilevel Regression
Statistics
R
Nov 1, 2022

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Rendering Mermaid Diagrams on a Hugo Website Using Quarto

We all deserve to draw fancy-looking diagrams without suffering severe emotional trauma.
Mermaid
Hugo
Quarto
Markdown
Sep 17, 2022

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Setting up a Hugo Website with Quarto

Combine the individual strengths of Hugo and Quarto to build a portfolio website and share code.
Hugo
Quarto
Markdown
Sep 11, 2022

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Resources for Learning Bayesian Statistics

Learning Bayesian statistics is a real sicko move. Here are some resources that will provoke your worst instincts. Yes… Ha Ha Ha… Yes!
Bayesian Statistics
Statistics
May 10, 2022

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Combining Tidymodels & Caret for Machine Learning in R

Can you use tidymodels and caret together? Yes. But should you? Unclear.
Machine Learning
Caret
Tidymodels
R
May 7, 2022

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Make More Packages!

How (and why) to learn basic package development in R, for data scientists.
Packages
R
Feb 19, 2022

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Making Myself Accountable

An opportunity to make promises I won’t keep so that strangers on the internet can judge my poor work ethic.
Me Me Me
Updates
Jan 17, 2022
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