“Wisdom” is a word that sounds to anyone ears, more closely related to the Dalai Lama than to hockey fans or Barbie customers. However, I must admit that the marketing team of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team has found an interesting way to take advantage of the wisdom of its own hockey fans by effectively [...]
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After a month and a half of hibernation due to work overload, I am finally back. Yesterday afternoon was the 18th game the Montreal Canadiens played in this year NHL playoffs, their highest number since the memorable 1992-1993 season (18 years ago) when they won the Stanley Cup. NHL hockey playoffs, starting at the beginning [...]
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I spent the last few days/weeks computing some R functions for automating a multiple variable selection of linear models using the LASSO and the SCAD penalties. It took me time to create my code, but at the end of the day, it is freshly automated and it is able to perform a statistical task in [...]
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For the last few days, I worked hard on the modeling of networking interactions in viral contests and with the start of the National Hockey league (NHL) season on October 1st, I thought it would be a nice idea to share my vision of how a sport, in this case hockey, is importantly influenced by [...]
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