Cycling and the Tour de France have invaded Statistical Skier this week. Â If you’ve been tuning in here for the skiing content and find this trend distressing, you can console yourself with the fact that the Tour will end soon. Â On the other hand, I’ve enjoyed the cycling stage race graphics and so I have […]
Tagged week in reviewNow that I’m back from travelling for a bit (but only for a bit) things were a little more busy this week at Statistical Skier. I debuted an interesting way to mine skiing results data to search for skiers with similar careers and used it to look at “similar” skiers to Beckie Scott. I reproduced […]
Tagged week in reviewA week on the road for me, so things have been a little slow. Â Here’s what’s been happening while I travel around to watch my friends get married… I showed a simple visualization of the men’s Olympic relay, although I made a bit of a mistake, omitting the Czech team. Â Sorry! We continued with our […]
Tagged week in reviewMy first full month of blogging is in the books! Â I’ll be travelling a bit over the next ten days, so posting might be a little lighter than usual, but not much. Â I’ve got a bunch of stuff lined up already written… Here’s a look back at what’s been going on here this past week: […]
Tagged week in reviewThe Statistical Wife and I are getting pumped for the USA-Ghana game tomorrow. Â Whatever World Cup team you’re partial to (after the USA, I confess to having a soft spot for Holland), here’s a recap of what’s been going on here at Statistical Skier this week. Â A little light reading between soccer games, perhaps… I […]
Tagged week in reviewHere’s a recap of what’s been going on at StatisticalSkier this past week: – A look at skiers who made the biggest jumps forward (or back) between the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 seasons: here, here, here and here. – A colorful way to visualize the head-to-head matchups between groups of skiers. – A look back at […]
Tagged week in reviewA recap of what’s been going on here at StatisticalSkier.com this past week: – I finished up a four part series examining rookie performances on the World Cup scene by tackling sprinting. Â (Distance racing was covered last week.) – I updated the athlete ranking graphs, adding several more years and changing the color scheme slightly […]
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