Nien Xiang
Bayesian versus Frequentist solutions to the Monty Hall problem
This post presents the use of both Bayesian and frequentist approaches to solve the famous Monty Hall problem.
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Nien Xiang
Aug 9, 20218 min read
Tokyo Olympics: Analysis of the 1500m Event's Pacing Strategy using the concept of Critical Speed
This blog post employs the concept of critical speed to analyse the pacing strategy in the 1500m event finals at the Tokyo Olympics.
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Mar 4, 20216 min read
All about that Bayes: Why individuals appraise similar evidence differently?
This article presents how Bayesian inference explains why different individuals appraise similar evidence differently.
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Nov 29, 20204 min read
Radar Charts in R: Visualising playing styles of EPL football teams
This post visualises the playing styles of EPL football teams with the use of radar charts.
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Nien Xiang
Jul 29, 20204 min read
The end spurt in marathon running: A universal behaviour?
This post examines the prevalence of the end spurt in marathon running based on data from Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2019.
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Jul 2, 20204 min read
Liverpool's success: Lucky or worthy winners?
This post examines whether Liverpool's title winning success is attributed to luck or genuine performance based on the expected goal metric.
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Nien Xiang
May 30, 20203 min read
Spatial visualisation with ggmap: Covid-19 clusters in Singapore
This article documents the visualisation of Singapore's Covid-19 clusters on the map using R programming.
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May 16, 20204 min read
Pace variation in Marathon running: Analysing data from Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2019
This post examines the whether variation in marathon running pace differs among runners of different performance levels.
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Nien Xiang
May 1, 20205 min read
Web scraping Goodreads with BeautifulSoup: Popular running books
This post documents the use of Python to scrape popular running books from Goodreads using the BeautifulSoup package.
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Apr 25, 20202 min read
Lactate Paradox
This post writes about the phenomenon of reduced blood lactate concentration found with increasing altitude.
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Mar 24, 20202 min read
Animated Data Visualisation of Covid-19
This article visualises how the covid-19 pandemic has evolved in certain countries using animated line plots on R.
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Nien Xiang
Feb 20, 20204 min read
Web Scraping and Data Visualising with R: EPL 19/20 Goal Stats
This article documents a walk-through on web scraping data on English Premier League teams from Wikipedia and visualise the data using R.
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Feb 9, 20203 min read
Is the English Premier League getting more competitive?
This post examines and compares the competitiveness of different English Premier League seasons based on coefficient of variation metric.
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Aug 8, 20194 min read
Can possession predict wins in football?
This post explores the use of logistic regression to examine whether ball possession can predict wins in football, with data from EPL 18/19.
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Nien Xiang
Aug 3, 20193 min read
Your perception is your reality
This post writes about the importance of studying perception in sport science domain, especially in the context of regulation of exercise.
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