Ever heard of the philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras of the 6th century BC? Perhaps you’ve come across one his most famous theorems during your geometry class. The Pythagorean Theorem states that in a right triangle, the sum of the legs squared is equal to the hypotenuse squared.
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Coin-flipping Life Experiment
What if life’s major choices are to be decided by the flip of a coin? Interestingly, the Freakonomics Experiments project – a collaboration between Freakonomics and the University of Chicago – is enlisting volunteers to do just that to study human behavior of decision-making. Intriguing, right?
An essential feature of this experiment is generating a truly random toin coss. While the Freakonomics Experiments team ensured coin toss randomness by using the Swiss-based Fourmilab’s True Random Number Generator (more info here), we can create our own coin toss using spreadsheets! Really? You bet!
How Analytics & Spreadsheets are changing the NBA
“‘Most teams are using spreadsheets or just using our reports,’ says Brian Kopp, executive vice-president at STATS. ‘The Raptors go a step beyond that, which only a few teams are doing, and their visualizations are the best I’ve seen.'”
This quote is taken from a piece describing how technology, statistics, and analytics are changing basketball.
Full article here.
Movie data analysis – movies turning 20
Have you seen the list of 40 movies turning 20 years old? Coming out in 1993, these movies include Jurassic Park, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Cool Runnings, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Free Willy. (The full list can be found from the link at the bottom of the post). Now you may thinking to yourselves, how could spreadsheets possibly be related to movies? Continue reading “Movie data analysis – movies turning 20”
How do I access spreadsheets?
Whether or not you realize it, you already have access to spreadsheets! Wait a minute: are you saying I don’t need to buy a spreadsheet software program to learn and create spreadsheets?
Absolutely right! Google spreadsheets are free. The 3 things you’ll need are… Continue reading “How do I access spreadsheets?”
Welcome to Spreadsheet Solving
Why care about spreadsheets? How could learning spreadsheets possibly benefit me? Continue reading “Welcome to Spreadsheet Solving”