Max Ghenis has a nice text analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech. You can read about his methodology here:  Statistics meets rhetoric: A text analysis of "I Have a Dream" in R.This got me wondering about the President Obama's 2014 State of the ... [Read more...]

NFL Player TreeInspired by the soccer player tree in an earlier post, I pulled some recent National Football League player attributes from EA Sports's Madden 25 (players ranked at least 95):I used R to do the heavy statistical lifting and used the pack... [Read more...]

FIFA 14 is a video game by EA Sports that mimics the experience of managing and playing for a soccer team. The game uses the likenesses and attributes of real players and this is part of the appeal. Although I rarely play video games, I am an avid soccer player and ... [Read more...]

Golf Scramble Simulation Golf Scramble SimulationThis is a simulation of a standard best-ball golf scramble. Conventional wisdom has it that the best golfer (A) should hit last, the idea being that one of the lesser golfers may have a decent shot already so the best golfer can take a risky ... [Read more...]