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- Up-to-date UK political polling data
- UK Newspaper Headlines
- Who plumped for Trump?
- Relative Age Effect – UK Athletics
- Relative Age Effect – European Football
- Making Pandas perform
- Sentiment analysis of Guardian articles
- Quick parallelism in Python
- Python versus R
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Relative Age Effect – European Football
The Relative Age Effect refers to a bias in performance and participation due to selection periods, such as school years, with the oldest within an age group having an advantage over the youngest. It has been widely observed in academia … Continue reading
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Making Pandas perform
I found that cleaning a time-series was taking longer than expected, the data being stored in a Python Pandas dataframe. With a few alterations to the way I was manipulating the data I was able to improve the performance so … Continue reading
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Sentiment analysis of Guardian articles
I’ve created an online tool for applying sentiment analysis to articles published in the Guardian newspaper based on the reader comments. You can jump in and try using it here, or find a short explanation here. Below I’ll discuss what … Continue reading
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Quick parallelism in Python
This post gives a demonstration of how parallelism can be introduced to a Python program to increase performance, and in particular how this can be done in very few lines of code. Introduction I’ve been working on a project involves … Continue reading
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Python versus R
A quick web-search will find you plenty of people contributing to the debate as to whether R or Python is better for data analysis. I’m not really going to contribute to that debate here having already expressed my frustrations with … Continue reading
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