Category Archives: Analysis

EUFA Champions League Football 2021/22 Club Stats Data Visualization and Analysis

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Thirty two of Europe’s best soccer teams have recently competed in the EUFA Champions League Football season 2021 / 2022. Real Madrid won the competition after beating Liverpool in the final. The competition is over, but it is ‘immortalized’, if you will, in the form of statistics. We can have a look at the stats to get an idea of how the competition went on and how the clubs performed.

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Exploring U.S. Births Data by Race and State (2007 – 2019)

Upon reading news about the recent tragic shooting in Buffalo, New York, United States we came across a mention about a specific data. That data was births data, claimed to show decline of the number of births of a certain race. This decline was reported to be one of the reasons that instigated the violence.

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Curved Shapes and Triple-Layer Patterns from U.S. Peoples’ Multiple Causes of Deaths Data (1999 – 2020)

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There are patterns in causes of deaths of U.S. people. I plotted the data as individual states with death rates along years and causes of deaths (c.o.d.) variables. Three layers are visible in these graphs. By far the most frequently occuring c.o.d. are heart disease and cancer which constitute the top layer. C.o.d. in the middle layer are moderately frequent. The middle layer comprises various diseases. The most commonly found c.o.d. in there are diseases of the respiratory, digestive, or nervous system, and external causes. The bottom layers comprises c.o.d. that are relatively rare. When plotted in single c.o.d., death rates of several c.o.d. show well-defined curved trends, suggesting their predictability potential. However, the overall patterns in these single c.o.d. graphs are not as marked and as consistent as the death rates plotted in single states.

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Insights From Twitter Trending Topics Data

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I tracked Twitter trending topics of 11 countries and worldwide region four times daily for 45 days from February to April 2022. My findings suggest that entertainment topics dominate the trending topics. The popularity of trending topics doesn’t reflect their real impact on the society. Keyword occurence patterns vary between countries. In all countries, the keywords occured sparsely. Some countries have more continuous patterns than others. Trending topics can be authentic, i.e. formed by natural conversations, or inauthentic, i.e. formed by bots or political campaign teams. Thus far, the trending topics patterns didn’t seem to reflect the authenticity of the conversations.

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Steady Rise of Firearm Homicide in United States in 1999 – 2020 : A Brief Analysis of the Data

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We briefly analyzed data of homicide by firearm data in the United States. The data was obtained from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), specifically CDC WONDER Online Database. The purpose of this analysis is to identify insights and interesting patterns that merit further investigation.

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Brief Analysis of Google Community Mobility Data and the Number of COVID-19 Cases

(Note: this article was last updated on October 2020)

TL;DR

– The community mobility is weakly correlated with the number of daily additions of COVID-19 cases. This conclusion is based on analysis that links Google Community Mobility and the global COVID-19 cases data. Other factors may form stronger correlation with the number of COVID-19 cases, e.g. strict social distancing measures outside of homes or potential infection inside homes.

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Finding the Best Area to Live for Birdwatchers in Singapore

Introduction

Humans have a innate instinct to connect with nature and other living beings (1). One such connection is through watching birds in their habitat. Indeed, birdwatching is a popular hobby around the world (2). Some people, including the author, can have stronger need to connect with nature more than others. This need can influence their buying decisions, such as choosing a place of residence. In connection with the birdwatching activity, factors that maximize the birdwatching experience in an area, such as bird abundance and diversity, can affect whether a birdwatching enthusiast would decide to live in that area or not.

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Determining Data Analysis Blogging Topics

To produce effective articles, we should pay attention to how we determine topics for data analysis blogging. There are two approach in researching topics for data analysis blogging: current trends and free exploration. Current trends approach uses current issues as leads. Free exploration approach explores topics or datasets that are interesting and personal to us.

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