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Creating a PWHL model: what are expected goals?

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the best way to learn about expected goals is to make 8 models

Do you get lighter when you put your hand in a bucket of water?

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If an elephant farted in a gym, would everyone be able to smell it?

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The Electoral College is Stupid, but so is National Popular Vote

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America Can Do Voting Better

Drum Corona International Week in Review: July 11

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Drum Corona Spotlight: California Nostalgia

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Drum Corona Spotlight: North of the Border

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Drum Corona International Week in Review: July 5

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Drum Corona International Kickoff Post!

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Drum Corona International Vote Results

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Adjusting Old Scores to Match New Sheets

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Announcing Drum Corona International!

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Drum Corona International: Building a Constant Sum Voting System

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Drum Corona International: Using my DCI Model to Simulate the 2020 DCI Season

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The quarantine has been hard on my mental health, but not in the way I expected

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coding is best when you’re bad at it with someone else

On Drum Corps Member Safety, Air Quality, and Diesel Engines

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environment

sometimes the problem is in what you don’t think about

Using Data to Visualize Connections Between Composers

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Social Network Analysis with New York Philharmonic’s Open Data

Introducing sexp: A package connecting R and Go

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Addressing my language gaps

Forecasting DCI Scores Part 2: Introducing the 2018 Model

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Now that the DCI season is a couple weeks old, it’s time to introduce the 2018 DCI model. I plan on launching the 2018 model with live predictions after the shows in…

Forecasting DCI Scores Part 1: How Not to Forecast DCI Scores

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I aged out of DCI in 2015, so this is my third summer as a “real person”. In what is obviously a complete coincidence, this is also my third summer of modeling DCI scores…