Stat Of Mind

Anyone that follows US politics will be aware of the tremendous changes and volatility that has struck the US political landscape in the past year. In this post, I leverage third-party data to su...

https://statofmind.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/the-biggest-liars-in-us-politics/

In this post, I leverage the SportVu data available for all NBA players active during the 2014-2015 season to not only infer players with the most similar playing styles, but also teams with the ...

https://statofmind.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/finding-nba-players-with-the-most-similar-playing-styles/

When it comes to the NBA draft, experts tend to argue about a number of things: at which position will a player be selected? what is the best draft class ever? etc… Luckily, the wealth of da...

https://statofmind.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/comparing-the-contribution-of-nba-draft-picks/

In this post, I will focus on the analysis of available R packages and the behavior of its users. In essence, this involves looking at the data in two different ways (1) relationships among avail...

https://statofmind.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/analyzing-package-dependencies-and-download-logs-from-rstudio-and-a-start-towards-building-an-r-recommendation-engine/

Two years ago, the entire NBA season went into lockout because of mostly financial reasons. However, one central point was also about keeping a competitive balance within the NBA, so that large a...

https://statofmind.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/competitive-balance-and-home-court-advantage-in-the-nba/

While the NBA finals are in full swing and the two best teams are battling it out for the ultimate prize, another 28 are now in summer vacation. In order to achieve their goal of still playing t...

https://statofmind.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/the-luckiest-team-in-the-nba/

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you have probably heard of TV shows such as Breaking Bad, Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother or Game of Thrones. While I generally don...

https://statofmind.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/using-sentiment-analysis-to-predict-ratings-of-popular-tv-series/

It’s no secret that I enjoy basketball, but I’ve often wondered about the carbon footprint that can be caused by 30 teams each playing an 82-game season. Ultimately, that’s 2460 air flights...

https://statofmind.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/on-the-carbon-footprint-of-the-nba/

While good draft picks and deft management can help you win championships, there is no doubt that NBA teams can massively gain, or lose, by trading players with one another. Here, I played around...

https://statofmind.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/on-the-trade-history-and-dynamics-of-nba-teams/

NBA basketball is the one the sports I enjoy watching the most. As I was ordering my (undisclosed amount)th beer while watching a game during after-work hours, it occurred to me how often I had s...

https://statofmind.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/and-the-most-loyal-fans-in-the-nba-are/