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Friday, 29 December 2023

Rating Systems Explained

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Teams in league sports often play balanced schedules. For example, in each season of the English Premier League, each football/soccer team p...
Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Reflection on an undergrad/grad crosslisted design of experiments course

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  I'm looking to re-examine and improve my teaching since I started working as a professor again for the University of Waterloo, and pa...
Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Reading Assignment – Collecting Carefully.

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This is a reading assignment for “Episode 28: Collect Carefully” of “The Data Science Ethics Podcast”, available at: https://datascienceethi...
Thursday, 17 February 2022

Peer review of "Algorithmically deconstructing shot locations as a method for shot quality in hockey"

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This is an open peer review I did for the manuscript " Algorithmically deconstructing shot locations as a method for shot quality in ho...
Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Sampling, conditional probability, and random number generation

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  Part of the motivation behind making the course Statistics and Gambling is to infuse new applicability into introductory or intermediate ...
Saturday, 26 June 2021

The Bottleneck Retirement Plan

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I do not have a voluntary retirement plan or a pension. I have the means to put money away specifically for retirement, but I choose not to...
Sunday, 11 April 2021

Wow, what are the odds? (Part 1: American Odds, Decimal Odds, and Implied Probability)

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The term "odds" is slippery because it's used to mean different things in different contexts. In layperson terms, "odds...