Simulating Babe Ruth v. Babe Ruth Plate Appearances

Introduction

More Fun with the Pythagorean Expectation

Fun with the Pythagorean Expectation

The Rarity of Giancarlo Stanton’s Extreme Failure

A Technical Analysis of Historical Baseball Periods

Opinion Mining Shakespeare, Lincoln and Gehrig

Surprising Negative Correlations between A-Rod’s Pay and Performance

The Bright Side of Failure; The Downside of Speed; and other Cool Baseball Observations

Cool Correlations Explained

Income Inequality ‘Ain’t’ Bad for Baseball

Can we predict the popularity of a movie? When it comes to the IMDB Top 250 list, patterns emerge, but predicting an actual IMDB rating is difficult, at least using classification techniques. A regression model is much better model for predicting these ratings.

“It was sad when the great ship went down.” – Old Camp Song

‘Location, Location, Location.’ It’s a real estate platitude. Some consider location the greatest influence on home prices. But is it true?

Does the length of a song hold the secret to success on the Billboard charts? The results are inconclusive, but there is at least one statistically meaningful difference when comparing hit rock songs from 2000 to hits in other genres.

Initial Modeling Success

Dance, Dance, Dance

This is my first Data Science Blog Post.