In this podcast, I describe some of the work I do in Performance Motor Sports. The NASCAR seasons offer a lot of surprises, excitement and opportunities to use Data Science to our advantage to help our teams win more races.
In early 1979, I wrote a series of five short stories that were intended to represent my autobiography. In this article I reflect up how I have changed since this time.
In this article, I discuss how the Bears QB Mitchell Trubisky could be coached to play better.
In Kenny Cool episode #2, I discuss how much fun I recently had working with real NFL data as part of a competition.
The Chicago Bears need to make a change at Quarterback. I already knew this was going to be the case about 7 months ago, before any football was played. I wonder why the football guys get paid so much money to make such terrible decisions.
Sometimes my blog is simply my diary. This is one of those articles. This article has nothing to do with Tableau and Alteryx.
I don’t expect anyone to read this because I am writing it for my little dude, Jett!
There is a great new RRP episode on the importance of sleep. I found it to be a outstanding resource and helped me understand many things about the critical need for sleep.
Introduction According to ESPN, it is now time to sign up for Fantasy Football (Figure 1).
Introduction For the past four years (2011-2014), I have used Tableau to produce real-time AAU basketball results during a big tournament.
10/14/14 –
I do believe that Jay Cutler has all the skills, training and experience to be a very good NFL quarterback, possibly even an “elite” quarterback.
11/17/15 – Cutler has not thrown multiple interceptions in a contest this season, an eight-game stretch that is the longest of his 10-year NFL career. His passer ratings over the last six games have been 89.4, 88.4, 88.8, 94.4, 100.5 and 151.0.
Update 1/8/16
According to ESPN, Cutler jumped 6 spots from 2014 to 2015 in total QBR. Here is the article: Cutler improves Total QBR in 2015.
Introduction In Part 4 of this new Alteryx-user series, I utilize the Alteryx/Tableau techniques shown in Parts 1 – 3 in a comprehensive example using data from the National Football League (NFL). I chose the NFL because the regular season begins in about a week and Americans love this sport (myself, included). Once I crunched the…
Introduction I use Tableau for scheduling basketball games and reporting tournament results. One of the difficulties I have faced in these applications arises because team schedules and results are stored in multiple dimensions. This means that a team can be either a home team or a visiting team in the database, which are two different…
Today (8/8/13), CNN Money posted a story about Golfers and the “Major Money” they make by winning Major tournaments. Conceptually the visualization is very good but the execution is just OK (I can think of a few improvements). The biggest problem: the data is WRONG! Check it out for yourself by clicking here! They should…