Published inNerd For TechDo MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? An end-to-end analysis in PythonEarlier this year I put out a 3-part blog series on how to scrape data on MMA fighters, clean it and analyse it, all in R. Since then I’ve…Aug 27, 2021Aug 27, 2021
Published inNerd For TechDo MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 3)Analysing the clean dataMar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021
Does money buy happiness for Europeans? Yes, but only a little bit.I’ve made a dashboard in Tableau, where I explore publicly available big data on the happiness of Europeans. The dashboard can be found…Mar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021
Published inNerd For TechDo MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 2)Cleaning web scraped data in RMar 11, 2021Mar 11, 2021
Published inNerd For TechDo MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 1)A complete analytics project in RMar 11, 2021Mar 11, 2021
Published inTowards Data ScienceThe correlation between arm and leg length in MMA fighters + a tutorial on data analysis in RI recently published a paper on armspan and fighting success in MMA fighters. I found that fighters with greater armspans have a very…Aug 18, 2020Aug 18, 2020
A guide for pre-registering plans for dealing with outliers in social science researchWhen pre-registering your study, there are many things to consider: sample size, what stats you’ll run, etc. One factor that receives…Aug 12, 2020Aug 12, 2020
Published inTowards Data ScienceThings I learned in my PhD #1 Productive data analysis through constraint.TL:DR: Sometimes you have so much data you can lose hours exploring without answering the important questions. Putting limits on yourself…Oct 24, 2019Oct 24, 2019
How to thrive at a conference on your ownFor students, conferences are an important part of academia: an opportunity to meet the names on the papers in the flesh, get your work…May 16, 20192May 16, 20192
Do more gender equal countries have greater sex differences?So I’ve seen a few articles arguing this point: that sex differences increase in more gender equal countries. This has been found for…Sep 19, 20181Sep 19, 20181