StatOfMind

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

Prison Locations around the USA

I recently discovered the enigma.io resource, a repository of freely available public with the following goals (as stated on their website): The volume of data created by governments and businesses is growing exponentially. Organizations struggle just to store it all, let alone make sense of it. Enigma helps organizations and...
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Posted by Thomas Vincent on September 9, 2015

Flow and Dynamics in NBA games - Part III

A look from 2001 to now

In part I and II of this post series on NBA game dynamics, I explored both the average score differential and proportion of time spent in the lead for each NBA team. Interestingly, this proved to not be a very reliable proxy for overall performance and number of wins accrued...
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Posted by Thomas Vincent on June 29, 2015

Flow and Dynamics in NBA games - Part II

A look from 2001 to now

In part I of this post series on NBA game dynamics, I explored the average score differential that teams faced over the course of games. Interestingly, this proved to not be a very reliable proxy for overall performance and number of wins accrued over an entire season. To continue, I...
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Posted by Thomas Vincent on June 12, 2015

Flow and Dynamics in NBA games - Part I

A look from 2001 to now

I have been interested in the game flow and dynamics of NBA games for a while, and so have decided to start a series of blog posts that will hopefully culminate in a web app that processes and displays game flows for present and historical games. Before that, however, I...
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Posted by Thomas Vincent on June 12, 2015

Language propensity across the globe

Just trying to make bubble charts cool again

I recently came across this great infographic that displayed the list of languages spoken around the world with the use of...bubble charts. For some reason, I've always looked down on bubble charts, probably because someone with authority displayed contempt for them at some point during my education. This infographic completely...
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Posted by Thomas Vincent on June 7, 2015