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Josh vs. himself (or: Firefly > all)

October 22, 2012
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Josh vs. himself (or: Firefly > all)

For Jan...I've got no data for "S.H.I.E.L.D." :(Maybe, but just maybe, "Firefly" gets the way-to-early-cancelled bonus by the voting community.

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Going to the Movies…

October 22, 2012
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Going to the Movies…

Today, let us have a look at movies. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has some data dumps available on their website. It's a subset of the information available on the IMDb site, but it's more than enough. I will spare you my code to convert these da...

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Soccer is all about money (?) – Part 3: More plots & analyses

October 19, 2012
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Soccer is all about money (?) – Part 3: More plots & analyses

Let's play around a bit more with the dataset we built in Part 1 of this series.Now we are going to compare data from more championships in Europe.Let's check out the first divisions from the following countries:- Germany (1. Bundesliga)- England (Prem...

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Soccer is all about money (?) – Part 2: Simple analyses

October 18, 2012
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Soccer is all about money (?) – Part 2: Simple analyses

Alright, now we have all the data we need in one dataframe. To make this code work, I assume you ran the code from Part 1. We need the dataframe big.tab.All the data presented here is based on the data from 18/10/2012. You can run an analysis with the ...

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Soccer is all about money (?) – Part 1: Getting the Data

October 18, 2012
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Teams with more money always win, right? At least they have a bigger chance of having success in their national championship. Let's look into that...NOTE: If you are not interested in the details of programming with R or getting data from the internet ...

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Let’s go! (and Disclaimer)

September 12, 2012
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Let's get that started ...Fun stuff with R coming soon!Disclaimer beforehand:The analyses I'll present are not meant to be taken too seriously in a scientific way. I just wanna show what you can do with R as a programming language, basic statistics and...

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