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Making the Extra-point Plays Fair

Statistics

Making the Extra-point Plays Fair

2015 by Belou Quimby

This year, the NFL experimented with a new rule to make the “extra point” more appealing to the audience. This rule moved the extra point line to 25 yards instead of 2 yards from the endzone. The change decreased the likelihood of successful kicks from 99.6 % in the 2013 season to 94.3 % in … [Read more…]

Posted in: 2015 Symposium Tagged: Hall-Perrine East, Mathematics & Statistics, Oral Session Three, Statistics

Topic Mapping: Finding Themes and Threads in Ferguson Tweets

2015 by Belou Quimby

This study sought a programmatic way to analyze large bodies of Twitter data to find thematic and semantic trends. Many current approaches to Twitter data analytics rely on fairly basic searches, such as identification of particular hashtags. While these hashtags can be useful and descriptive when it comes to finding the threads of conversations revolving … [Read more…]

Posted in: 2015 Symposium Tagged: Computer Science, Hall-Perrine East, Statistics

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