Publications by Jesse

Science of The Super Bowl

A couple days ago, I participated in a Science of the Super Bowl Panel discussion organized by Newswise. I was asked to give a 5 (which turned more into about 10) minute overview, so I focused on answering 3 questions. What is data science? How is data science used in the NFL? How might data science affect the outcome of the Super Bowl? For my t...

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The Steep Slide of NFL Draft Salaries

Some friends and I got into a conversation about rookies in the NFL and how much their salaries were. We eventually started guessing how much more the first overall pick makes compared to, Mr. Irrelevant, the last pick of the NFL draft. It’s a pretty steep drop from number 1 to number 256 (7 rounds of 32 teams, plus a maximum of 32 compensatory...

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Webinar – R Adoption Series – Scaling R at GSK

Full video recording available here (58:52 mins) Summary: In this presentation, Andy Nicholls, Head of Data Science within GSK Biostatistics, provided an overview of GSK’s WARP environment for Biostatistics. The presentation described the key requirements that led to building the environment and included an overview of the basic technical com...

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