Children of the Revolution
Mapping the interelated Network of Guillotine Victims
I have been oddly fascinated by the French Revolution lately. My Friend Ismail, sent me a copy of The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle, which sparked my interest, which I supplemented with Revolutions by Mike Duncan. At the same time, I have been interested in Network Theory for a while. Finally, I read Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative information, while working on the entropy paper. The relation between these three things is probably unclear.
Momentum in Basketball: A Statistical Entropy Analysis
Do Runs Actually Exist in the NBA?
This paper explores whether momentum exists in professional basketball through a novel entropy-based statistical analysis. Based on the 2019–20 NBA season play-by-play dataset, we apply a clumpiness measure to scoring sequences and simulate expected distributions under different assumptions.
