My article went live on iTNews late on Saturday night, and it got picked up by Slashdot yesterday. As we saw, the predicted results were as good as expected, and got more accurate the higher up the order we went. As promised, here’s a more detailed explanation of how I… Read More
I’ve played with R a bit more, and figured out how to find intersections and draw overlap graphs, like this: This shows the overlap between the probabilities of the number 1 and number 2 song are correct. The line at 634 is the point at which the probabilities meet. You… Read More
You may have heard by now of a neat little project called The Warmest 100. Online marketer Nick Drewe and some of his friends and workmates used some clever insight, and some simple statistics, to attempt to predict the outcome of this year’s Triple J Hottest 100. I’m putting together… Read More
