Predicting Soccer Transfer ValuesIn club soccer, acquiring players works differently than in American sports. In baseball, basketball, and football players are acquired as…Nov 17, 2020Nov 17, 2020
How to Predict an ElectionEvery four years since 2008 Nate Silver has created a model using statistics to attempt to forecast the results of the presidential…Aug 26, 2020Aug 26, 2020
Continuous Probability DistributionsIn probability, mathematicians use continuous distributions to model situations where the random variable is continuous. Two obvious…Aug 12, 2020Aug 12, 2020
Discrete DistributionsIn mathematics, many different statistical distributions model varying situations. These distributions fall into two categories, discrete…Jul 29, 2020Jul 29, 2020
Being Aware of Bias in Data ScienceMy first exposure to the dangers of poorly implemented data science was from an episode of the podcast, “99 Percent Invisible” called “The…Jul 14, 2020Jul 14, 2020