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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Hockey,
organizations,
playoffs,
pools,
strategies,
website
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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automated,
automation,
Canadians,
Email Marketing,
Hockey,
Montreal,
Ottawa,
Senators,
Tickets
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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assets,
Brian Burke,
Brian Gionta,
connections,
Francois Allaire,
Hockey,
Jonas Gustavsson,
NHL,
Rickard Wallin,
Scott Gomez,
season,
Social Networks