2023-04-19
The Journey Until Now In previous posts, I have talked about the data I obtained and sifted through about the annual NBA draft. With the goal of finding how well NBA teams can percieve talent, I webscraped it from the Basketball Reference site and cleaned it up so it would be easily usable. Then I got to the fun part: the analysis. Having several variables to look at made it difficult to choose the most important and useful ones.
2023-03-31
NBA Draft Analysis In my previous post, I talked about how I web-scraped data about basketball players in the NBA. The data has information about the NBA draft and some information about that player’s success in the league, and my goal with the data is to analyze how well NBA teams draft. I will look at the data and see whether there is any relationship between a higher pick number and various data points related to a player’s success.
2023-03-16 | #basketball #web-scraping
The NBA Draft As a fan of the Utah Jazz, I am particularly interested in basketball players coming into the league. Every team gets two picks each year in a draft, and whichever of the new players they pick will be on their team for at least the next few seasons. The thing that makes this interesting is that the order of the draft is based on how many wins the team had in that season.
2023-03-01 | #Book review #Surveillance Capitalism
Surveillance capitalism’s products and services are not the objects of a value exchange. They do not establish constructive producer-consumer reciprocities. Instead, they are the “hooks” that lure users into their extractive operations in which our personal experiences are scraped and packaged as the means to others’ ends. We are not serveillance capitalism’s “customers.” Although the saying tells us “If it’s free, then you are the product,” that is also incorrect.
2023-02-08 | #coding #tutorial #vim #workflow
You are trying to edit a file. It might be a some code, a markdown file, a configuration file, or any number of text files. You remember a tool called vi which you remember is used to do just that, and you use it to open up your file. Once you are in, you realize you can’t type or move your cursor around. You likely would have given up, used something else and wondered “why would anyone use this?
