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Ranking fantasy players requires aggregating lots of different types of information. In this article we introduce our four factors fantasy football strategy to help capture…
There are many different types of bets in horse racing. This can make knowing how to bet on horse racing difficult. In this article we’ll…
One of the most bizarre concepts in sports is a disaster draft. It’s macabre to consider; the idea that a professional sports team could lose…
In many real life applications – stock markets, weather modeling, and sales forecasting to name a few – data has a natural sequential ordering that…
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One of the most fundamental statistical concepts is the idea of statistical significance. Statisticians learn how to conduct hypothesis tests to determine whether or not…
If neural networks dominated the early 2010s, no algorithm dominates modern machine learning discussions like XGBoost. XGBoost is a wildly powerful variant on decision trees…
I’ve often found that the best way to convey information is through animations, not static images. In particular, knowing how to make a GIF in…