StatOfMind

A melting pot of statistics, machine learning and data vizualization.

Does home-court advantage in the NBA matter?

Home-court advantage in the NBA For obvious reasons, 2020 has not been the best of years, and alongside the terrible societal and economical turmoil created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the sports and entertainment industry has also undergone some dramatic transformations. Of all major sports leagues, the NBA was able to...
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Posted by Thomas Vincent on December 6, 2020

Comparing rental prices in the US market

Rental Prices in the US As a fortunate resident of New York City, I get to enjoy the many activities offered by a city that never really turns off its lights. The price to pay for such entertainment, however, are the crazy rental fees. I have stopped counting the number...
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Posted by Thomas Vincent on December 11, 2017

NFL Series

Exploring the performance of NFL's best running backs

If you have previously attempted to analyze NFL data, it is likely that you have tried to scrape ESPN or football-reference, which provides a wealth on statistics surrounding game data. However, if you ever wanted to obtain truly in-depth data, then it is likely that you found yourself leveraging the...
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Posted by Thomas Vincent on October 8, 2017

Building a Kafka and Spark Streaming pipeline - Part I

Many companies across a multitude of industries are currently maintaining data pipelines used to ingest and analyze large data streams. In effect, the proper implementation of such pipelines belongs to the realm of “data engineering”, and represents a gateway to interesting data science-related problems. Traditional machine learning methods have been...
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Posted by Thomas Vincent on September 25, 2016

A map of elevators in NYC

Not too long ago, I came across a random tweet pointing to a GitHub repository full of miscallaneous datasets. I was imemdiately excited by the various data science and visualization problems tha I could take on and immediately decided to get my hands dirty. One of the first datasets that...
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Posted by Thomas Vincent on August 31, 2016