Cycling and the Tour de France have invaded Statistical Skier this week. If you’ve been tuning in here for the skiing content and find this trend distressing, you can console yourself with the fact that the Tour will end soon. On the other hand, I’ve enjoyed the cycling stage race graphics and so I have […]
Tagged week in reviewNow that I’m back from travelling for a bit (but only for a bit) things were a little more busy this week at Statistical Skier. I debuted an interesting way to mine skiing results data to search for skiers with similar careers and used it to look at “similar” skiers to Beckie Scott. I reproduced […]
Tagged week in reviewA week on the road for me, so things have been a little slow. Here’s what’s been happening while I travel around to watch my friends get married… I showed a simple visualization of the men’s Olympic relay, although I made a bit of a mistake, omitting the Czech team. Sorry! We continued with our […]
Tagged week in reviewMy first full month of blogging is in the books! I’ll be travelling a bit over the next ten days, so posting might be a little lighter than usual, but not much. I’ve got a bunch of stuff lined up already written… Here’s a look back at what’s been going on here this past week: […]
Tagged week in reviewThe Statistical Wife and I are getting pumped for the USA-Ghana game tomorrow. Whatever World Cup team you’re partial to (after the USA, I confess to having a soft spot for Holland), here’s a recap of what’s been going on here at Statistical Skier this week. A little light reading between soccer games, perhaps… I […]
Tagged week in reviewHere’s a recap of what’s been going on at StatisticalSkier this past week: – A look at skiers who made the biggest jumps forward (or back) between the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 seasons: here, here, here and here. – A colorful way to visualize the head-to-head matchups between groups of skiers. – A look back at […]
Tagged week in reviewA recap of what’s been going on here at StatisticalSkier.com this past week: – I finished up a four part series examining rookie performances on the World Cup scene by tackling sprinting. (Distance racing was covered last week.) – I updated the athlete ranking graphs, adding several more years and changing the color scheme slightly […]
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