During the last two voicemail shows on Rob Has A Podcast, Rob Cesternino and his co-host have discussed the question, “What winner of Survivor had the largest net worth prior to their win?“ In this blog post, I explain how I came up with the answer of Yul Kwon, winner of Survivor Cook Islands. Before I dive too deeply into my research, I want to setup why this question is interesting...
Recently I wrote about calculating the “peak” season of Seinfeld. In that post, I ranked the seasons by computing a single metric based on the results of twenty top 10 and worst 10 episode lists that I collected from various online sources. In this post, I use the same sources to compute the answers to who are the best performing and worst performing Seinfeld writers and guest...
During a recent voicemail segment on Rob Has a Podcast (RHAP), Rob Cesternino and Angie Caunce, discussed former-NBA player Scot Pollard’s performance so far in Survivor Kaoh Rong. Specifically, they asked the question: Is Scot Pollard the best big man to ever play survivor? There’s been a number of rather tall men that have played Survivor: Mitchell Olson, Australian Outback...
I am a big fan of both Survivor and the Survivor-related podcasts on Rob Has a Podcast (RHAP). One of the weekly segments Rob does during the Survivor season is a voicemail segment with a guest host. Rob and his guest host spend about an hour each week answering questions related to the latest episode. In a recent voicemail segment with Amy H, they talked about how it would be interesting to...
The Seinfeld Recap Podcast is one of my favorite podcasts on Post Show Recaps and if you’re a Seinfeld fan, I highly recommend it. Recently I wrote about how I extracted 20 questions from the The Seinfeld Recap Podcast. One of the hosts, Akiva Wienerkur, has ranked all 180 episodes of Seinfeld. In each episode, he lets us know where the episode falls in his rankings. In the last episode...
Well I’m back again with a follow up project to my original Seinfeld Recap Podcast work that I posted about a few weeks ago (you can here me talk about this project here). The genesis of my latest project came from a suggestion by Mike Bloom. He had contacted me and suggested that it might be interesting to look at how different podcasts and their hosts use language. I started thinking...
It’s been almost three years, but I’m back again with another super nerdy blog post! I’ve written a lot in the past about different computer programs or stats stuff that I’ve written, usually related to programming competitions, ontologies, and CrossFit, but today, something a little different. I have been a big fan of Rob Has a Podcast and PostShowRecaps almost since...
What’s this? Another post? Yes indeed, two within a week of each other. My blog tends to work this way, my writing comes in waves. This post relates to data mining, visualization, and mashing up GMail with Facebook. I attended a talk last week at the CS department at Stanford and the speaker mentioned that they were using the “TO” field in e-mails to perform hierarchical...
It’s been quite a while since I last posted. I have had lots of things to talk about, but just haven’t found the time to write anything. In this post, I am going back to analyzing CrossFit-related data, but this time I am taking a completely different angle. Rather than analyzing scores and comparing athletes based on their performances, I am comparing athletes based on their...
This is my third foray into the world of CrossFit data analysis, this time looking at scoring. Recently, over at the CrossFit Games website, there was an article about Scoring CrossFit Competitions as well as one talking about Scoring Technology. I participated in a number of conversations in the comments section with regards to how competitions are scored. This post is going to be a bit of a...
