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London Olympics 100m men’s sprint results

August 5, 2012 | Markus Gesmann

The 100m mean's sprint finals of the 2012 London Olympics are over and Usain Bolt won the gold medal again with a winning time of 9.63s. Time to compare the result with my forecast of 9.68s, posted on 22 July. My simple log-linear model predicted ... [Read more...]

London Olympics and a prediction for the 100m final

July 22, 2012 | Markus Gesmann

It is less than a week before the 2012 Olympic games will start in London. No surprise therefore that the papers are all over it, including a lot of data and statistis around the games. The Economist investigated the potential financial impact on spons...

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Waterfall charts in style of The Economist with R

May 7, 2012 | Markus Gesmann

Waterfall charts are sometimes quite helpful to illustrate the various moving parts in financial data, in particular where I have positive and negative values like a profit and loss statement (P&L). However, they can be a bit of a pain to produce in Ex...

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London Olympics 100m men’s sprint results

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