Speed climbing is an Olympic sport where two competitors race to the top of their individual 15-meter walls with a 5° overhang. The holds…

Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his…

“Oh god, do I have to watch my awful team win just enough games to never draft an elite talent?”

On a team level, xG is often used to assess the quality of the goal scoring opportunities that a team creates and concedes. That is, it…

The Florida Panthers won the 2024 Stanley Cup after a rise from a rebuild. Their cup winning roster was more than a decade in the making. In an effort to understand what a makes a rebuild succeed, I d...

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Land isn’t unemployed—people are. Here’s how to use R, {ggplot2}, {sf}, and {patchwork} to create a histogram legend in a choropleth map to better see the distribution of values.

Symmetry is a beautiful thing in life and in statistics, and what’s more is it makes life so easy if you’re a data scientist. Ah, the beautiful simplicity of declaring something is normal, slapping on...