How Much Do Swimmers Improve in a Season?
In my previous post, we’ve seen how kids improve year-by-year in swimming. Certainly kids get stronger and faster as they grow. But how …
A Deep Dive in Analyzing Swimming Data
This past summer, my daughter joined a swim team. Her team is among several teams that are part of an area league. All summer long, …
How would you bet? Lessons from a Biased Coin Flipping Experiment
Recently I listened to a podcast featuring Victor Haghani of Elm Partners, who described a fascinating coin-flipping experiment. The …
Text Analysis of Amazon Shareholder Letters
Amazon is led by its charismatic founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, who is widely hailed as one of the top visionaries of this era. At the …
Building a Predictive Typing Model
Everyone using a smartphone or a mobile device has used an onscreen smart keyboard that tries to predict the next set of words that the …
Best batsmen in cricket at present
Who’re the best batsmen in cricket today? Is there a way to define a set of objective criteria that provides an unbiased conclusion? In …
Top batsmen in cricket
In a previous post, I used data from Statsguru and looked at a brief history of cricket with respect to debut years and career spans of …
A brief history of cricket
Since early childhood, I have been a big fan of cricket. Some of my earliest childhood memories are watching the game along with my …
