I love doing data analyses with pandas, numpy, sci-py etc., but I often need to run repeated measures ANOVAs, which are not implemented in any major python libraries. Python Psychologist shows how to do repeated measures ANOVAs yourself in python, but I find using a widley distributed implementation comforting… In this post I show how […]
Author: Dan Vatterott
Grouping NBA Players
In basketball, we typically talk about 5 positions: point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and center. Based on this, one might expect NBA players to fall into 5 distinct groups- Point guards perform similar to other point guards, shooting guards perform similar to other shooting guards, etc. Is this the case? Do NBA […]
Creating NBA Shot Charts
Here I create shot charts depicting both shooting percentage and the number of shots taken at different court locations, similar to those produced on Austin Clemens’ website (http://www.austinclemens.com/shotcharts/). To create the shooting charts, I looked to a post by Savvas Tjortjoglou (http://savvastjortjoglou.com/nba-shot-sharts.html). Savvas’ post is great, but his plots only depict the number of shots […]
Complete Amnesia for Object Attributes?
Reanalysis of Chen & Wyble, 2015 Chen and Wyble published an interesting paper (2015) where they demonstrate that participants cannot report attributes of attended stimuli unless the participants are previously informed that this attribute is important. For instance, you wouldn’t remember the color of the apple if you had had just told someone the shape. […]