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College Football Predictions

44 minute read

Continuing with the streak of posts about college football posts, here I finally get into developing some models to predict the winning team and margin of vi...

Plotly & Markdown

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In a previous post, I created a scatterplot using ggplot2 that displayed college football team logos as the markers using geom_image() from the ggimage packa...

Simple Rating System

10 minute read

This, to me, is the coolest part. I had no idea this is how some rating systems work, and it’s pretty slick. It’s just one big system of equations that you s...

Oregon Football

20 minute read

I’m not a huge football fan. I can’t even remember the last time I watched an NFL game. However, I do sort of follow college football. And being from Oregon,...

GDELT Tutorial

12 minute read

GDELT claims to be the largest, most comprehensive, and highest resolution open database of human society ever created.