Any Means Necessary

The 2006-07 NHL season was the Nashville Predators’ best regular season. With Tomáš Vokoun in goal and great players like Paul Kariya, Jason Arnott, and Steve Sullivan up front, the team set a franchise record with 110 points. Now, eleven years later, the Predators have a pretty good team once again. Will this team finally be the one to surpass the ’06-07 team and earn at least 111 points? So far this season, the Preds have played 55 games and earned 77 points. [Read More]

Back in February, I wrote a post trying to predict when the output of Roger Peng’s newer podcast (“The Effort Report”) would surpass the output of his original podcast (“Not So Standard Deviations”). Now that some time has passed, let’s take a look back and see how well that prediction held up. In that previous post, I used a very simple linear rate of the output of the two podcasts to predict when the episode count of “The Effort Report” would surpass that of “NSSD”. [Read More]

Data science hero Roger Peng is the co-host of two different podcasts. For his first podcast, he joined Hilary Parker on a data science podcast called “Not So Standard Deviations”. Their first episode was released on September 16, 2015, and since then they have released a total of 33 episodes. That works out to a rate of 0.061 episodes per day. But “Not So Standard Deviations” is not Dr. Peng’s only venture in the podcasting world. [Read More]

So this is just your basic “hello world” post. I’m testing my workflow for writing blog posts, which I hope will be… write posts using R Markdown knit to MD commit to GitHub host with github.io R Markdown This post is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word documents. For more details on using R Markdown see http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com. [Read More]