Asst. Inst. Professor, University of Chicago Researching intransitivity in paired comparisons, (pedagogy in) sports analytics (courses). #GSG 🏀 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
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ALT Daisy crochet pattern with Chicago flag colors (red, white, and light blue) generated with ggplot2.
ALT Ryan Tibshirani giving a talk at The University Chicago, Department of Statistics, in front of a packed room
ALT A two-panel photograph showing my cat (Pam, a calico) sitting in a rectangle made of painter's tape — the second panel shows the cat is in a sun spot. Note: this experiment was poorly designed by this citizen scientist — me
ALT Me wearing a San Antonio Spurs shirt (my hometown team) in front of several Chicago Bulls jerseys and other Chicago sports paraphernalia at a sporting goods store. The jerseys primarily belong to DeMar DeRozan, who was traded to Chicago from San Antonio, beginning an upheaval of the roster that will in all likelihood lead to the Spurs drafting Wembanyama.
ALT A data visualization demonstrating simulation results. Four Uniform(0,1) draws are made and sorted. The resulting order statistics (in red, green, blue, and purple) have their distributions shown. These are verified to be Beta distributions with overlapping yellow lines.
ALT Randomly generated color strips from a 15-color palette created as described in post. Colors dominated by pink, yellow, and blue.
![XKCD comic #2016. SUB[43]: All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence SUB[44]: Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica SUB[45]: The digits of Chris Hemsworth's cell phone number SUB[46]: All integers, in descending order SUB[47]: The digits of the OEIS serial number for this sequence SUB[48]: 200 terabytes of nines SUB[49]: The decimal representation of the bytes in the root password to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences server [Caption below the panel:] OEIS keeps rejecting my submissions Also, fun fact: SUB[44] is an actual OEIS sequence now https://oeis.org/A316600](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fdxl-GhXkAEfYI5.png?name=orig)
ALT XKCD comic #2016. SUB[43]: All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence SUB[44]: Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica SUB[45]: The digits of Chris Hemsworth's cell phone number SUB[46]: All integers, in descending order SUB[47]: The digits of the OEIS serial number for this sequence SUB[48]: 200 terabytes of nines SUB[49]: The decimal representation of the bytes in the root password to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences server [Caption below the panel:] OEIS keeps rejecting my submissions Also, fun fact: SUB[44] is an actual OEIS sequence now https://oeis.org/A316600
ALT Statistical Aspects of Competition course map which connects the main topics/ideas I cover in the course, including probability, programming/software engineering, Bayesian Thinking/Decision Analysis, Simulation and Statistical Computing, Modeling Framework, Rank-Based & Kernel Methods, Paired Comparisons, Spatio-Temporal Visualization, and Statistics and Data Science Research. The course has pre-reqs of intro stats (in R), computer programming (in Java), a modeling course, and a data science course. The students do two projects throughout the course. First, programming the game of Qwixx and their own strategy to win, which is then run in a simulation to compare all pairs of strategies and determine which is the best. These pairwise Bernoulli strength parameters are used in subsequent simulation to explore the nature of tournament structure and seeding. They also have a final project in which they perform statistical/data science research.
