Another month has passed. In these monthly posts, I won’t dive deep into every little bit of stuff that I studied during the month (that would be impossible), what I’ll try to convey the taste to increase your appetite.
For the last two months, majority of my time was spent on basketball analytics. I started a newsletter, called The Read Step, which I post about EuroLeague analytics and basketball analytics in general. Don’t forget to subscribe if you’re interested.
I’ve been interested in Bayesian modeling for the last 3 months, and I was using Bambi, which is a port of R’s stanarm. However, it has its limitations so I got much more familiar with PyMC in the last month which I used to build a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate home-court advantage in EuroLeague. Here’s the post to it, if you wonder about it.
I’ll be starting the classic, Statistical Rethinking, thinking about following the book while going through the videos on YouTube as well.
Other than these, I bought Asimov’s I, Robot and can’t wait to get to it! During the vacation I read Sinan Alper’s and Onurcan Yilmaz’s Komplo Teorilerine Neden İnanırız? (Why Do We Believe In Conspiracies). It felt nice to get back to reading some social science stuff.