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What's New?
(older news items here)
- I will be featured on a
Stats + Stories
"short story" about
The Best Way to Rank Everyone.
The segment goes live on January 24, 2019.
- I gave a talk at the
2018
Joint Statistical Meetings
on August 1, 2018, in Vancouver, BC, on modeling authorship of
Lennon-McCartney songs.
The American Statistical Association
issued a
press release about the work, and various articles have appeared
in the news media.
A 6-minute segment
was recorded for the CBC show
The
Early Edition that appeared on August 1, and
a 6.5-minute segment
appeared on August 9 on WGBH radio in Boston.
And if you are not sick of hearing my voice, there is also my
interview
on Science Friday on August 10,
and the
Stats+Stories
podcast from October 18.
Update (May 20, 2019):
The paper "(A) Data in the Life:
Authorship Attribution of Lennon-McCartney Songs"
has been accepted to the
Harvard
Data Science Review
and will appear in its inaugural issue.
The online version, to be released in June, 2019,
will contain several interactive
demos, an innovative feature of the journal.
More soon about the availability of the manuscript.
- I have been elected to the American Statistical Association's Board
of Directors for a 3-year term, starting 2019, as Council of Sections
representative.
- The paper
A comparison
of rating systems for competitive women's beach volleyball
as been published in a special sports statistics issue
of the
Italian Journal of Applied Statistics.
-
The Chapman & Hall/CRC book
Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports,
edited by me, Jim Albert, Tim Swartz and Ruud Koning,
has now been published.
I wrote a chapter on
Estimating Team Strength in the NFL
with Hal Stern.
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I am one of the developers of the new
Universal Rating System
for chess.
The project was sponsored by Grand Chess Tour, the Kasparov Chess
Foundation, and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.
- I am the founding head of the
Sports Analytics Laboratory at Harvard University.
The
web site
is now active.
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