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He Who Puts the Team On Their Back

One of the more common criteria for judging the greatness of basketball players is to simply ask who has the most championship rings. It’s…

Jun 10, 2018

Jun 10, 2018

Josh Yazman

Measuring the Madness

UMBC’s historic and dominant upset of UVA in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament instantly made a case that 2018…

Mar 31, 2018

Mar 31, 2018

Josh Yazman

Predicting Charitable Contributions with Gradient Tree Boosting

Excessive overhead spending has long been seen as a cardinal sin for charitable organizations. Money spent on corporate salaries and donor…

Feb 22, 2018

Predicting Charitable Contributions with Gradient Tree Boosting

Feb 22, 2018

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Predicting College Basketball Outcomes

Introduction

Feb 12, 2018

Feb 12, 2018

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Using Linear Regression to Model Point Spreads in College Basketball

It stands to reason that the easiest way to predict who will win a college basketball game is to predict who will score more points…

Jan 27, 2018

Using Linear Regression to Model Point Spreads in College Basketball

Jan 27, 2018

Josh Yazman

A Pair of Text Analysis Explorations

After about a year of learning text analysis techniques from Text Mining with R (Silge and Robinson 2017) I had two big questions that I…

Dec 23, 2017

A Pair of Text Analysis Explorations

Dec 23, 2017

Josh Yazman

Cluster Analysis of Players in Division I Men’s College Basketball Teams

Basketball teams are teams for a reason. Some players are great pure shooters and others are stronger defensive players. Thousands of…

Dec 17, 2017

Dec 17, 2017

Josh Yazman

Attempting to Replicate Ariely’s Anchoring Bias

One of the earliest times I remember being interested in studying human behavior was watching a PBS documentary called Mind Over Money. The…

Nov 30, 2017

Attempting to Replicate Ariely’s Anchoring Bias

Nov 30, 2017

Josh Yazman

Reverse Coattails in the VA Governor’s Race

Introduction

Nov 22, 2017

Nov 22, 2017

Josh Yazman

When Can I Start Relying on Basketball Stats?

One challenge in predicting basketball outcomes is the unpredictability inherent in college sports. Players get injured or suspended, teams…

Nov 10, 2017

Nov 10, 2017

Josh Yazman

Josh Yazman

Data Analyst specializing in surveys & RCTs, instructor @General Assembly, advocate @PanCAN, grad student @Northwestern Univ. Twitter: @jyazman2012

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