Barcelona and the Liga, or: Quantitative Support for Obvious Predictions
I’ve adapted the predictive model to look at the Spanish Liga. Unsurprisingly, it’s currently giving Barcelona a 96.7% chance of…
Magic Squares of (probabilistically chosen) Words
Thinking about magic squares, I had the idea of doing something roughly similar with words, but using usage patterns rather…
The Torneo Inicial 2012 in one graph (and 20 subgraphs)
Here’s a graph showing how the probability of winning the Argentinean soccer championship changed over time for each team (time…
New collection of very short stories
I’ve just put together a new collection of short-shorts, Time of Punishment: Twenty-five Very Short Stories for the Last Month…
Update to championship probabilities
Team Championship probability Vélez Sarfield 85.4% Lanús 14.6%
Soccer, Monte Carlo, and Sandwiches
As Argentina’s Torneo Inicial begins its last three rounds, let’s try to compute the probabilities of championship for each team….
A Case in Stochastic Flow: Bolton vs Manchester City
A few days ago the Manchester City Football Club released a sample of their advanced data set, an xml file…
Washington DC and the murderer’s work ethic
Continuing what has turned out to be a fun hobby of looking at crime data for different cities (probably among…
How Rooney beats van Persie, or, a first look at Premier League data
I just got one of the data sets from the Manchester City analytics initiative, so of course I started dipping…
Crime in Argentina
As a follow-up to my post on crime patterns in Chicago, I wanted to do something similar for Argentina. I…