Calling All Stats Geeks: CougCenter Statistics Consortium

I am a 6th year graduate student in the School of Biological Sciences.

I primarily work in R, but I also use python, google refine, gnumeric, gnuplot, and a handful of other more biology-specific statistical tools.

I do a lot of things but I would say my strengths lie in data visualization, spatial statistics, and data scraping.

One thing I would really like to get going here is a NCAA/NIT tournament prediction system…

I have a BS in Math (Actuarial Option) and I’m currently working on getting my Masters in Higher Education.

I haven’t actually done a whole lot of stats in the past year and a half or so since I knocked all of the stats classes out early on in my undergrad, but I think I’m still reasonably good with R and SAS mostly. I have used some other tools but never as in depth as those two. I’ll be helping teach the use of some statistical tools this upcoming semester, so hopefully I’ll get some more experience with others.

I don’t know if I really have a certain strength within stats. I took all the classes I possibly could at WSU so I feel like I have a decent handle on most things, but don’t have much out of classwork experience in any particular area.

As far as ideas go, I haven’t really given it any thought, so I’ll start looking. I’d be more than happy to help out on any projects we come up with in mean time though.

I am a Managing Editor for a website that covers Washington State University Athletics.

I have Bachelor’s Degree in History and a Teacher’s Certification from Washington State University. There, I did not learn one damn thing about statistics. To make up for that I am a first year graduate student in Statistics at the University of Vermont. I just finished my first semester and now have 9 whole credits of post-graduate work under my belt.

I probably know SAS the best, because I find it is pretty easy to look up how to do things on the interwebs. I also know some R, but my usage of R waned as my semester got harder and I just wanted to figure out how to do my homework, instead of figuring out how to do my homework AND battling R for three hours.

I’m not really good at anything. I’m totally down with what Kirt wants to do as far as an NCAA predicting system. Also, you guys can just all help me do my thesis next year. Cool?

I’m a junior math major (actuarial science).

I’m just getting into upper level stats courses due to changing majors and what not. My strengths would probably be regression. I’ve been mostly using excel but plan on teaching myself R over break.

A friend and I have been trying to make a ncaa tournament prediction method.

And I can write in a way that makes it seem like I know a lot about math, but I really don’t. I’m mostly here so that you can teach me stuff.

I am a fourth year graduate student at WSU in Sociology. I do my work in STATA. My strengths wouldprobably mostly lie in working with techniques pertaining categorical variables, regression modeling, and working with interaction terms. To be honest, I am really unfamiliar with what is done in basketball statistics and analyses so I am eager to learn and would be thrilled if we, as a collective, could come up with some innovative stuff.

the Eastern Washington SB Nation site. They started off doing some basic stuff adding up turnovers and counting total points for individuals players, but they have become much more complex recently. They can actually tell you the percentage of free throws that an individual player makes.

I took Stat 370 last spring and I got a B, which is defined as “Above Average”.

I know everyone may not have facebook, so let me know if that won’t work for you. My goal is to get a place where I can get several conversations going about particulars and where I can begin to gather emails to share editing privledges on google docs, etc.

I graduated last spring in Business Economics. We did mostly theory type stuff but I had a couple classes where we did regressions with large amounts of data and that type of stuff. I’m mostly just interested in learning whatever you guys know. Obviously math is way more interesting when you are playing with sports related data rather than US exchange rates or something like that!

I have started a google group called “CougCenter Statistical Consortium” (that name seemed to make a lot of people…umm….happy…). Go Join, and I have already posted an unfinished dataset for all to gander at, perhaps help finish, and have posted some of my thoughts on what I will be doing with it. Please comment on the plan, if you have insight, take a look at the dataset, go wild….