tl;dr -I don’t remember how many games of Clue I’ve played but I do remember being surprised by Mrs White being the murderer in only 2 of those games. Can you give an estimate and an upper bound for the number of games I have played?We solve ... [Read more...]

Calibration in survey sampling is a wonderful tool, and today I want to show you how we can use it in some Machine Learning applications, using the R package Icarus. And because ’tis the season, what better than a soccer dataset to illustrate this? The data and code are located ... [Read more...]

I’m a huge sports fan, but I certainly don’t have extended knowledge about all team sports. Sometimes when I hear about scores in a sports I’m not quite “fluent” in, I wonder how they would translate in a sports I know better. I guess many people ask ... [Read more...]

This weekend I released version 0.3.0 of the Icarus package to CRAN. Icarus provides tools to help perform calibration on margins, which is a very important method in sampling. One of these days I’ll write a blog post explaining calibration on margins! In the meantime if you want to learn ... [Read more...]

This year we’ve had a great summer for sporting events! Now autumn is back, and with it the Ligue 1 championship. Last year, we created this data analysis tutorial using R and the excellent package FactoMineR for a course at ENSAE (in French). The dataset contains the physical and technical ... [Read more...]