Ha ha, no I definitely got my forecast of athletics medals wrong! But have a feeling all these athletics medals have come about less because of Indian athletes overperforming and more because of other Asian athletes underperforming (Neeraj Chopra being an exception). Will see if I can do a follow-story in the Hindustan Times on this. And thanks for all the feedback! :) -shijith
On Friday, 31 August 2018 08:47:49 UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote: > > Hi Shijith, > > Good analysis of the historical trend. It gives a valuable benchmark of > what the status quo is and where the country as a collective needs to > compete with its former self. > > After the games conclude it would be great to update the dataset and run > the same analysis again and see where the biggest changes in trend have > happened, plus a scorecard of how India fared this year as measured against > herself. > > Later it would also be good to trace back to the causes behind sudden > trend changes : have there been any significant changes in the coaching > style? Recruiting mechanism? Renumerations? Management changes? This goes > for both positive as well as negative differences. > > Quick google search on current medals tally says: > 13 Gold > 21 Silver > 25 Bronze > One suggestion in terms of choice of words: instead of calling it as > prediction for coming year, call it as current benchmark/trend. They are > technically the same things, but impression in readers mind is different. > One leaves the agency for change in the stakeholder's hand whereas the > other makes it sound more like fate. Data is valuable both in predicting > the future and in changing it. Also, one of the approaches won't attract > rude comments in the comments stream (supposing this was being published by > a news platform where readers can post comments) later on, in the off > chance that the forecast got beat :D > > > Cheers, > Nikhil VJ > Pune > > On Saturday, August 25, 2018, Shijith Kunhitty <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Thanks Akash, appreciate the kind words! :) >> >> On Saturday, 25 August 2018 01:44:34 UTC+5:30, AKASH MALIK wrote: >>> >>> Dear Shijith, >>> This is a very interesting study, really loved it. >>> *Dr. Akash Malik* >>> National Manager- Health System Strengthening >>> United Nations Development Programme >>> 55,Lodhi Estate >>> New Delhi-110003 >>> Mob: 91-9599088267/+91-9953419276 >>> >>> *The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard >>> work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.**Please consider the >>> environment before printing this email.* >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:14 AM Shijith Kunhitty <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, just sending a link to a data story I did on the Asian >>>> Games. >>>> >>>> The athletics events at this year's Asian Games are starting this >>>> Saturday. In the story I try to guess how many athletics medals India >>>> could >>>> win at the Asian Games using past data. Chances are we could win fewer >>>> than >>>> we did in 2014. >>>> >>>> Here's the link to the story: >>>> https://shijithpk.github.io/asian_games_athletics/index.html . >>>> >>>> Parts of the story were earlier published in the Hindustan Times, just >>>> putting it all in one place so it's easier to read. >>>> >>>> Used data from IAAF.org for the story as well as IAAF's scoring tables >>>> <https://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/scoring-tables-2017>. >>>> >>>> The python code used to scrape and analyse the data is available in the >>>> github repo here: https://github.com/shijithpk/asian_games_athletics . >>>> >>>> If anyone has any questions or feedback, do let me know! -thanks, >>>> shijith >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >>>> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "datameet" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > -- > Cheers, > Nikhil VJ > +91-966-583-1250 > Pune, India > Website <http://nikhilvj.co.in> > DataMeet Pune chapter <https://datameet-pune.github.io/> > Self-designed learner at Swaraj University < > http://www.swarajuniversity.org> > Payment / Contribute <https://nikhilvj.benow.in/pay> > > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
