29 Dec 2016 » Building a Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu family tree . Summarizing ~800 fighters’ lineages using hierarchical networks
20 Dec 2016 » MMA styles II: ranking the top striking, submission and decision specialists . A hierarchical Dirichlet-Multinomial model of winning style preferences
29 Sep 2016 » MMA styles I: grouping finishes using large-scale data . Constructing a network of MMA fighting styles
23 Aug 2016 » In MMA winners keep winning and losers keep losing . A markov model of fighter careers
11 Aug 2016 » Building a large database of MMA fight results IV: turning tables into a database with R and SQL . Creating and accessing a SQL database from R
17 May 2016 » The not-so-small-world network of MMA fighters . Matchups between 140,000 MMA fighter are shaped by geography, gender, weight and experience
13 May 2016 » Building a large database of MMA fight results III: summarizing the demographics of 140,000 MMA fighters . Network-based inference of MMA fighter demographics
05 May 2016 » Building a large database of MMA fight results II: quantitatively summarizing over 240,000 MMA fights . Summarizing the results and finishes of over 240,000 MMA fights
29 Apr 2016 » Building a large database of MMA fight results I: scraping with rvest . Scraping a large database of MMA fights using rvest