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Do MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? An end-to-end analysis in Python

Earlier 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, 2021

Do MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? An end-to-end analysis in Python

Aug 27, 2021

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Do MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 3)

Analysing the clean data

Mar 18, 2021

Do MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 3)

Mar 18, 2021

Thomas Manandhar-Richardson

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, 2021

Does money buy happiness for Europeans? Yes, but only a little bit.

Mar 18, 2021

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Do MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 2)

Cleaning web scraped data in R

Mar 11, 2021

Do MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 2)

Mar 11, 2021

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Do MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 1)

A complete analytics project in R

Mar 11, 2021

Do MMA fighters with longer arms win more fights? (Part 1)

Mar 11, 2021

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Towards Data Science

The correlation between arm and leg length in MMA fighters + a tutorial on data analysis in R

I recently published a paper on armspan and fighting success in MMA fighters. I found that fighters with greater armspans have a very…

Aug 18, 2020

The correlation between arm and leg length in MMA fighters + a tutorial on data analysis in R

Aug 18, 2020

Thomas Manandhar-Richardson

A guide for pre-registering plans for dealing with outliers in social science research

When pre-registering your study, there are many things to consider: sample size, what stats you’ll run, etc. One factor that receives…

Aug 12, 2020

A guide for pre-registering plans for dealing with outliers in social science research

Aug 12, 2020

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Towards Data Science

Things 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, 2019

Things I learned in my PhD #1 Productive data analysis through constraint.

Oct 24, 2019

Thomas Manandhar-Richardson

How to thrive at a conference on your own

For 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, 2019

How to thrive at a conference on your own

May 16, 2019

Thomas Manandhar-Richardson

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, 2018

Do more gender equal countries have greater sex differences?

Sep 19, 2018

Thomas Manandhar-Richardson

Thomas Manandhar-Richardson

Data scientist at https://peak.ai/. Interested in AI explainability, AB testing, causal inference and recommenders

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