I recently got a hold of team rankings for the English Premier League (EPL) for the last 10 years (data was manually recorded from this Google sheet, available here in .csv format). I thought this would be a good opportunity … Continue reading →

With the FIFA World Cup in my recent memory and the English Premier League (EPL) kicking off this Friday (see here for match schedules), I’ve been thinking a bit about the mathematics/statistics of the beautiful game. In this post, I … Continue reading →

R has a colon operator which makes it really easy to define a sequence of integers. For example, the code 1:10 generates a vector of consisting of the integers from 1 to 10 (inclusive). However, using the colon operator is … Continue reading →

Did you know that you can include math expressions in your text annotations of figures in R? This webpage has an excellent tutorial on how to do so. In essence, you can put your plot label (with some syntax) in … Continue reading →