Thomas Manandhar-RichardsoninNerd 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…18 min read·Aug 27, 2021----
Thomas Manandhar-RichardsoninNerd For TechDo MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 3)Analysing the clean data9 min read·Mar 18, 2021----
Thomas Manandhar-RichardsonDoes 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…1 min read·Mar 18, 2021----
Thomas Manandhar-RichardsoninNerd For TechDo MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 2)Cleaning web scraped data in R8 min read·Mar 11, 2021----
Thomas Manandhar-RichardsoninNerd For TechDo MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 1)A complete analytics project in R5 min read·Mar 11, 2021----
Thomas Manandhar-RichardsoninTowards 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…5 min read·Aug 18, 2020----
Thomas Manandhar-RichardsonA 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…5 min read·Aug 12, 2020----
Thomas Manandhar-RichardsoninTowards 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…5 min read·Oct 24, 2019----
Thomas Manandhar-RichardsonHow 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…8 min read·May 16, 2019--2--2
Thomas Manandhar-RichardsonDo 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…5 min read·Sep 19, 2018--1--1