Originally posted on Causal Sports Fan: Edit: Please see my later post as well, which corrects an omission here. Miguel Cabrera has a shot at the Triple Crown this year. No one has done it since Carl Yastrzemski. Is it really possible that he could win the Triple Crown and not win the MVP? Well, yes.…

To most people, statistics means plugging numbers into an advanced calculator that spits out values, without much thought involved. Those people don’t work with data. -Nathan Yau   Cheres.

My favorite critique of my article from Shark974: Translation: Deadspin is shit and biased and wants to ban the NFL. Nothing more. Sorry but you know it’s true. Studies these days are worth the paper they’re printed on, having been infiltrated by liberals (probably a few forests have been sacrificed printing fake global warming studies…

The crude death rate, for well known reasons, is not a good measure, because it is quite seriously affected by differences in age composition.  Standardized death rates, on the other hand, have the disadvantage that they depend on an arbitrarily selected standard population. –Dublin, L.I. and Lotka, A.J. “Use of the Life Table in Vital…

StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 4, 2012 at 12:18pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record Projected Record Prob of making playoffs SOS Run Diff Texas 1 ↑1 80-54 95-67 99.3% 11 +121 NYY 2 ↓1 76-58 90-72 87.4% 6 +86 Tampa Bay 3 – 74-61 87-75 43.4% 7 +78 Oakland 4 ↑1 76-58 89-73…

Originally posted on bayesianbiologist: If you haven’t yet discovered the competitive machine learning site kaggle.com, please do so now. I’ll wait. Great – so, you checked it out, fell in love and have made it back. I recently downloaded the data for the getting started competition. It consists of 42000 labelled images (28×28) of hand…

blog maverick When it comes to getting a job, the USA has bifurcated into two employment worlds, the digital world and the brick and mortar world. The brick and mortar world is everything you physically touch. Its manufacturing. Its retail sales. Its distribution. Its construction. Etc. The digital world is everything defined by what you…

From Gelman’s blog: Infovis vs. Statistical Graphics Cheers.

Originally posted on God plays dice: Which country wins the Olympics? Right now China is in the lead for most medals (73: 34 gold, 21 silver, 18 bronze) and most golds. The USA is second in both categories (71: 30 gold, 19 silver, 22 bronze). In 2008 there was some controversy about whether the ranking…

StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of July 23, 2012 at 11:58am.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 – 57-38 1 1 5 +76 Texas 2 – 56-38 2 2 13 +80 LA Angels 3 – 52-44 6 3 8 +46 Toronto 4 ↑2 48-47 17 13 3 +29…