Publications by Prof. Hugo Montesinos and Prof. Olga Nicoara
Baseball/Sabermetrics with MoneyBall Example
Moneyball (2011). Introductory videos: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4QPVo0UIzc He Gets on Base Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MjxoaynCmk Player Value Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzin1DgexlE Academic videos: We will use and follow a set of videos by HarvardX (Machine Intelligence YouTube Channel). Link here ...
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Climate Spirals - Week 3 (IDSIRI)
Climate Spirals. This week we will create climate spirals and make them interactive. We will follow Code Club (episode 223) by the Riffomonas Project YouTube Channel and Pat Schloss (highly recommended!). They build upon climatologist Ed Hawkins from the University of Reading. Introductory Key videos: (1 Min) The original visualization from ...
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Animated Climate Spirals v1
Climate Spirals Animation Last week we visualized the temperature anomalies during 1880-2022 as deviations from the benchmark period 1951-1990. We used interactive climate spirals following Code Club (episode 223) by the Riffomonas Project YouTube Channel and Pat Schloss (highly recommended!), who in turn built from climatologist Ed Hawkins ...
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Repeated Covid Testing
COVID-Testing Probabilities. Motivation: Planning a Big Conference In a nice conversation with our very good friend and colleague Nikolai Wenzel during the peak of the pandemic, he mentioned that he was organizing a conference and making the tough decision of which requirements to put in place. Among the options, there were the following: 1)...
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RepeatedTesting2
COVID-Testing Probabilities. For a motivation, mathematical background, and the details of the problem, see the post from last week: https://rpubs.com/hugomoises/RepeatedTesting1.This week, we will elaborate on the details of how to create such interactive plots using plotly. The Problem (review) The following is a question, verbatim, from pr...
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RepeatedTesting3
COVID-Testing Probabilities. The last two weeks we discussed the problem and several solutions. Those include a closed form mathematical solution (using probability theory), simulation using R, and visualization using Shiny Web Apps and Plotly. For a rough guide of our work the last few weeks, check https://rpubs.com/hugomoises. In particular...
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