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survivoR now includes US50 and AU12

May 27, 2026No Comments

Are the chances of being voted out next higher if you are in the minority after a tribe swap?

March 9, 2026No Comments

Quick Guide: Group Jackknife Variance Estimation

February 2, 2026No Comments

Survivor 49 is now in 📦{survivoR}

January 8, 2026No Comments
Statistics Survivor

Do Jurors Vote for their Alliance at the Final Tribal Council?

May 6, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

After Season 46 I wrote a post about if ‘Jury Favourability’ can predict the winner of Survivor. It showed that […]

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Tidy Tuesday

Tidy Tuesday week 16 2025: Fatal Car Crashes in the US

April 27, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

This week’s data was kind of cool. It was meant to focus on the fatalities associated with 4/20 (which always […]

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Tidy Tuesday

Tidy Tuesday week 15 2025: Base R Penguins

April 27, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Back to a classic dataset this week. 🔗 Gallery

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Statistics Survivor

Is there a problem with double eliminations?

April 20, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Just after the double elimination episode of season 48, posts like this were doing the rounds. The double raised eyebrow […]

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TidyTuesday week 14 2025: Timely and Effective Care

April 14, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

This week I played around with a different take on the doughnut chart using geom_arc from ggforce. 🔗 Github

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Tidy Tuesday

Tidy Tuesday week 13 2025: Pokemon

April 5, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

This is a pretty cool data set. There are quite a few things to look into with a number of […]

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Tidy Tuesday

Tidy Tuesday week 12: Amazon Annual Reports

April 1, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

This week we looked at the words within Amazon’s Annual reports. References to “AI” really boomed in 2023. 🔗 Github

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Tidy Tuesday Week 11: Palm Trees

April 1, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

This week, we looked at palm trees from the {palmtrees} package. This was a quick one. 🔗 code

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Tidy Tuesday week 10 2025

March 18, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

This week we looked at Pixar films. Relatively small data set but a lot you could do with it. I […]

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Statistics Survivor

Is it disadvantageous to win the first individual immunity challenge?

March 17, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

No player in Australian Survivor history has won the first individual immunity challenge and gone on to win the game. […]

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Tidy Tuesday

Tidy Tuesday Week 3 2025: Himalayan Mountaineering Expeditions 🗻

January 27, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Well, I decided to get back into Tidy Tuesday, for a while at least. This week, we’re looking at Himalayan […]

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R Survivor

Another season, another release. {survivoR} v2.3.5 now on CRAN

January 9, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Survivor 47 has wrapped up and the data has been add to the package. There are a bunch of new […]

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Statistics Survivor

Was Andy right?

December 9, 2024 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

It was a great television, and it got a lot of people asking, was Andy right? If not, what is […]

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R

📦 {alone} v0.5 is now available

September 6, 2024 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Alone Season 11 has finished and is now available in the package and ready for analysis. As per usual install […]

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Data Science

Was Dub right to expect to be done in 60 days?

September 6, 2024 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

On day 73 of season 11 of Alone, Dub commented that he thought it would be over around day 60. […]

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