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Esport predictions: Overwatch League

We study a single season of games in the professional esports league for Overwatch and try to predict game outcomes based on past performance.

Oct 11, 2023

Markus Hauru, Tim Powell, Kevin Xu

Unveiling London’s mobility patterns with Boris Bikes

Using Transport for London’s data on the Santander Bike Scheme to understand how Londoners move around the city

Jul 7, 2023

James Bishop, Markus Hauru, Federico Nanni, Camila Rangel Smith

Machine Learning for the 20th century - Artifact Classification From an Aviation Mystery

Can a United Kingdom database from 1987 classify a glass cosmetics jar that might have belonged to Amelia Earhart? (Photograph credit ID 98648556. Copyright Mickem, Dreamstime.com.)

Oct 14, 2022

Joe Cerniglia

Desert Island Discs - Famous people and their musical tastes

As the iconic BBC radio programme turns 80, we explore notable people and the music that tells the stories of their lives.

Mar 9, 2022

Helen Duncan, Bill Finnegan, Luke Hare, Camila Rangel Smith, Sam Van Stroud

Modelling COVID-19 Hospitalizations in England

Investigating the link between infections and hospitalizations using COVID-19 data in England for 2020-2021 and Bayesian inference.

Nov 3, 2021

Eric Daub

French Pastries, Baseball Players, and Marginal Utility

Understanding and estimating the replacement value of US baseball players with Bayesian models.

Jul 21, 2021

Eric Daub

When will the United Kingdom be Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19?

COVID-19

vaccinations

forecasting

By May 2021 the United Kingdom had fully vaccinated one third of the adult population. Based on the progress so far, we estimate when the whole population will be vaccinated.

May 19, 2021

Jack Roberts