Introduction
I recently posted about using the Wikileaks cable corpus to find word use patterns, both over time, and in secret cables vs unclassified cables.
I received a lot of good suggestions for further topics to pursue with the corpus, and probably the most interesting was the idea to do sentiment analysis over time on a variety of...
6/18: A follow-up to this post is now available here.
Recent Discoveries
When I was a diplomat, I was always interested in the Wikileaks cables and what could be done with them. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to look at the site in depth, due to security policies. Now that the ex- is firmly prepended to diplomat...
This is the sixth post in my series on predicting the NBA playoffs with an algorithm. After the Boston loss in their last game, the algorithm is now 5-4 in the playoffs. Hopefully it is correct tonight! Open Sourcing the CodeI have had a couple of re...
This is update 4 to my original post about predicting the NBA playoffs with R. With the Thunder beating the Spurs and the Heat losing to the Celtics, the algorithm went 1-1 on predictions, making it 5-3 so far.
Making some improvements
I have been posting for some time about incorporating more data into the models, and I...
This is my third update to my original post on predicting the NBA playoffs with an algorithm. Here are updates 1 and 2. The algorithm correctly predicted a Boston win, but missed on the Spurs/Thunder game, so it is currently 4-2. Haven't had any time...
This is my second follow-up to my previous two posts which were about predicting NBA games with an algorithm, and my first update to the algorithm. The algorithm's record is now 3-1, as it correctly predicted Boston and Oklahoma City as winners of the...
Game ResultsI recently made a post about developing an algorithm to predict the NBA playoffs, and I concluded with 2 predictions. Although Miami beat the Celtics to make my algorithm 1-0 in terms of predictions, it fell to 1-1 when the Thunder beat th...
This is the initial post about the algorithm. See updates 1, 2, and 3 for more. The algorithm is currently 4-2 in the playoffs!OverviewI was struck by Martin O'Leary's recent post on predicting the Eurovision finals, which led me to decide that I wou...
I have posted previously about the open data available on Socrata (https://opendata.socrata.com/), and I was looking at the site again today when I stumbled upon a listing of levels of various radioactive isotopes by US city and state. The data is available at https://opendata.socrata.com/Government/Sorted-RadNet-Laboratory-Analysis/w9fb-tgv6 . You will need to click export, and then download it as a...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
