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Trigger request – maintaining performance over a season

A couple of weeks ago, I received a Trigger request from Wyatt: “In general, are older athletes able to maintain performance over the course of a world cup season vs younger athletes who might burn out faster? Gut feel says yes, but what does the data say?” He checked off the boxes for all seasons, but to keep the data manageable I looked at the last three seasons only. And since we’re talking about form during the season, I only included athletes that participated in 17 races, roughly two thirds of all races, in a season. He imagined some kind… Read More »Trigger request – maintaining performance over a season

Learning R – reading books

After I worked with R in the past and starting playing around with R Studio Cloud recently, I thought it would be a good idea to actually read some books about it. And, as this specific book suggested, make some notes and follow examples in a Markdown Notebook, that can be easily published as an html-file. And low and behold, I can just save that file and upload it here, so that I just need to click once and see the same document. Very cool! So, one book I read through is Data Visualization, a practical introduction, by Kieran Healy.… Read More »Learning R – reading books