FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express link From Taylor Firman comes an opportunity to make baseball history: This year, Major League Baseball announced it will play a shortened 60-game season, as opposed to the typical 162-game season. Baseball is a sport of numbers and statistics, and so Taylor wondered about the impact ...

The other day, Dr. Silge from RStudio posted the screencast and blog post of her #TidyTuesday analysis of the Uncanny X-Men data set from Claremont Run Project. In her analysis, she used logistic regression to model the effect of various features of each comic book issue on the likelihood of ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express link In Riddler City, the city streets follow a grid layout, running north-south and east-west. You’re driving north when you decide to play a little game. Every time you reach an intersection, you randomly turn left or right, each with a 50 percent chance. After driving ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express link From Tom Hanrahan, a maze you can solve without getting lost in a field of corn: The number in each box tells you how many spaces up, down, left or right you must move. (No diagonal moves, people.) Starting at the yellow six in the ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Classic link After a long night of frivolous quackery, two delirious ducks are having a difficult time finding each other in their pond. The pond happens to contain a 3×3 grid of rocks. Every minute, each duck randomly swims, independently of the other duck, from one rock to ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express link Riddler City is a large circular metropolis, with countless square city blocks that each have a side length of 1 km. A small section of the city, composed of 36 blocks, is shown in the diagram below: At the very center of the city lies Riddler City ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express ( Link to the original article.) From Patrick Mayor comes a question about something we’re doing these days to keep ourselves and others safe: social distancing. You’re walking along the middle of a wide sidewalk when you see someone walking toward you from the other ...

Summary The Riddler is a weekly puzzle provided by FiveThirtyEight. This week’s puzzle involves finding the path used by the knight to kill the opposing queen in a game of chess. Below, I show how I solved puzzle using two methods: a siumulation of the chessboard and by building ...

Introduction Cancers are often first classified by their tissue of origin, but there are several types of cancer for each tissue. Further, each of these can have several subdivisions. For example, head and neck cancers can be further divided into seven cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC). ...

Introduction Cancers are often first classified by their tissue of origin, but there are several types of cancer for each tissue. Further, each of these can have several subdivisions. For example, head and neck cancers can be further divided into seven cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC). ...

Introduction I am preparing a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal and decided to compose it in $\LaTeX$ using Overleaf. While Overleaf, an online $\LaTeX$ editor, has many collaboration features (including live, multi-person editing and review) many people, namely my PI, dislikes both $\LaTeX$ nor Overleaf, and instead prefers ...

Introduction I am preparing a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal and decided to compose it in $\LaTeX$ using Overleaf. While Overleaf, an online $\LaTeX$ editor, has many collaboration features (including live, multi-person editing and review) many people, namely my PI, dislikes both $\LaTeX$ nor Overleaf, and instead prefers ...