rhiever

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Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women by major, 1970-2012(randalolson.com)
38 points by rhiever 12y ago|60 comments
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Football referees are unfair when awarding penalty kicks(randalolson.com)
1 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
There have been several theories suggested on /r/dataisbeautiful -- come check it out: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/27ypq1/coll...
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College degrees awarded per capita in the U.S.A.(randalolson.com)
3 points by rhiever 12y ago|3 comments
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The key to Magnus Carlsen's success as a chess grandmaster(randalolson.com)
2 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Racial Diversity by County(randalolson.com)
3 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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Analyzing 1,000,000 pageviews on a research blog(randalolson.com)
13 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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Most expert chess games don't end in checkmate(randalolson.com)
5 points by rhiever 12y ago|1 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
I wish I knew about this earlier! Thanks for explaining it to me though. :-)
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by rhiever 12y ago
If any of the alternative paths were common enough, they would show up in the charts as well. I didn't limit the analysis to a particular set of moves; I simply counted all of the paths present in the data set and showed the most commo
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by rhiever 12y ago
I double-checked my data set to look into this, and you're right. Nearly all of the Pircs in that time period were done by a guy named Moheschunder Bannerjee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moheschunder_Bannerjee H
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Evolution of chess: Popularity of openings over time(randalolson.com)
95 points by rhiever 12y ago|42 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
I just found this research paper on Go: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/05/19/005223
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by rhiever 12y ago
I'm actually looking at specific moves right now! Hope to have something to report on by the end of the weekend.
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by rhiever 12y ago
Nice! I've been needing a tool like this for these chess analyses. Do you have docs showing how to use the scripts?
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by rhiever 12y ago
Here's a quickly made chart to show that: http://i.imgur.com/lHbVzXM.png (I don't have enough games w/ Elos pre-1960 to show a reliable mean.)
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by rhiever 12y ago
>The data doesn't support the conclusion that chess is becoming more defensive. That's a good point. I weakened the wording to make it clear that I'm speculating.
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by rhiever 12y ago
Here's a distribution of Elo scores in the data set: http://www.randalolson.com/wp-content/uploads/chess-elo-scor... This data set is from chess tournaments, so it's predominantly games with skilled play
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by rhiever 12y ago
>In particular, the mean moves-per-game that he displayed it is simply the actual mean of the data set. It's not an estimate of that mean, if I'm understanding the article correctly. So what does it mean to display a confidence
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by rhiever 12y ago
I revised the wording in the post to reflect your wording suggestions. Thanks! The visualizations are a pain to replace, but I'll get the terminology right on those in future posts. To me, it doesn't make sense to assign a draw as
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The evolution of chess: Game lengths and outcomes(randalolson.com)
86 points by rhiever 12y ago|38 comments
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50% of expert chess tournament games end in a draw(randalolson.com)
4 points by rhiever 12y ago|2 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
Yeah, why was the URL changed?
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Popular subreddits have predictable cycles of virality(randalolson.com)
3 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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It’s impossible to work your way through college nowadays (now with national data)(randalolson.com)
3 points by rhiever 13y ago|2 comments
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How to create a linear regression in R and Python, side-by-side(theswarmlab.com)
2 points by rhiever 13y ago|0 comments
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Brothers use data mining to predict the final Olympic medal counts at Sochi(fastcodesign.com)
4 points by rhiever 13y ago|0 comments