Successful projects get you ahead, whether it’s building networks or getting jobs. Having eye-catching output is the ultimately way to cut through the crowd and stand out to decision makers. Recently, I went to the University of Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium, a day-long conference that brought together enthusiasts like myself with academics firmly established in… Read More
Data Analysis
Simulating the 2020 NBA Bubble Season
With the NBA season getting underway in the Orlando bubble, I decided to simulate the rest of the regular season along with the playoffs. This idea originated when I was looking at elo data on FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism website, along with some simulations done by ESPN (paywall). The elo method is a measure of… Read More
Senator Positions: A Spatial Analysis
Typically, US politics is thought of in a two dimensional framework, with politicians put on a spectrum on both social and economic issues. However, with the realignment brought on by the Trump Administration, with it’s “America First” and trade-reducing policies, there has been a movement toward a framework that don’t fit traditional Conservatism in the US. While… Read More
Milwaukee Bucks Title Odds Over Three Seasons
Note: This post was conceived before the NBA decided to suspend its season on March 11th following Rudy Gobert’s positive COVID-19 test. Best wishes to everyone dealing with the virus, and please take all precautions for your health and safety. This post is only intended for entertainment purposes during this difficult time. The Milwaukee Bucks… Read More
Should Mike Pence Push for a Trump Impeachment?
Mike Pence has been in Republican politics for a long time, serving as Congressman and Governor for nearly two decades. Now as Vice President, he sits a heartbeat away from the Presidency. The Democrats have impeached Trump and send the articles to the Senate. If 67 Senators must vote to convict, Pence will sit in… Read More
My Capstone was Featured
Back in 2015, in looking to break into data analytics as a career, I look a course from Springboard called Foundations of Data Science. The course involved weekly check-ins with my data science mentor as well as a capstone project to put my skills to the test. For the capstone project, I used publicly available… Read More
Introduction to A/B Testing
Every product team wants to know what makes their product thrive. They want to know how to optimize metrics and leave users the happiest and most engaged. Without a way to definitively understand user behavior, they must turn to anything they can. Enter the A/B test. Ultimately, every A/B test starts from a hypothesis. The… Read More
The Data Analysis Process
It’s easy for someone looking to move into an data analytics role to think about technical skills. It’s natural for analysts and data scientists to strive to learn SQL, R, Python, etc. as those are often prerequisites for a data role. But that’s only a small part of the story, and in my opinion, the… Read More
The Analytics Pyramid of Needs
In this day and age, you can’t go a day without hearing terms such as “data science,” “big data,” or “analytics.” These terms have been thrown around to apply to so many situations that the original meaning of these words is lost. So, what does it take for any organization to be successfully data-driven? Although… Read More
The Law of Analytics
It seems everyone is talking about “analytics” and “data science.” These buzzwords have been thrown around to imply that these are new concepts that only started in high-tech. Before we get lost in the hype, let’s bring the conversation back to basics and understand what analytics truly is. Analytics is simply using numbers and data… Read More