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A Stat-by-stat Look at the Best Predictors and a Quest to Predict the Outliers
Sports world personalities love to bash analytics these days. It’s hard to go five minutes listening to baseball talk on sports radio without hearing someone make a derogatory comment about “the nerds taking over.” Ironically, they then immediately launch into sports betting ads, and guess what, folks…any time you place a bet because “the Giants always lose in Washington” or whatever, that’s a rudimentary form of analytics, minus the actual modeling. I’ve also noticed a prevalent opinion that advanced statistics and modeling will produce a single (read: boring) way of playing the game. If that happens, it is due to…
Never have we needed music more than in 2020. Never have we seen a tougher environment for new music. The constant assault of this year on our collective sanity has made it substantially tougher than normal to focus on and appreciate art. Now imagine how much harder it has been for creators to produce said art during the year. They have either had to block out all of their 2020 stressors in order to create anything or channel those stressors into their creations, all while knowing that touring — the musician’s main source of income in the backwards music industry…
John Pette
Data Scientist at NYU | Ex-U.S. Diplomat | Music Historian and Discographer | Armchair Sociologist | One-time Chemist. None of it makes sense to me either.
