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Survivor 49 is now in 📦{survivoR}

January 8, 2026 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Survivor 49 has wrapped up and has been added to the {survivoR} package. It is available on If you find […]

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Statistics Survivor

You win chickens at a reward challenge. What do you do?

October 26, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

In episode 5 of Survivor 49 we saw another instance of a tribe winning a rooster and three egg laying […]

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Statistics Survivor

In Survivor, there’s one group that needs more love

October 22, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

During my previous post using the Survivor Fact Checkers popularity poll data, a few things stood out. There was at […]

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Statistics Survivor

Is Star the most popular, under-edited player in Survivor?

October 22, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Kosta, the Survivor Fact Checker, was kind enough to share some data with me to test two hypotheses: The reason […]

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R Survivor

Survivor Australia vs. The World is now in {survivoR}

September 15, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Survivor Australia vs. The World has wrapped up, and the data is now available in the {survivoR} package. You can […]

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Statistics Survivor

Castaway Scores: Who is the Best Survivor Player of All Time?

June 20, 2025 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

There have been some legendary players over the 25 years and 48 seasons – Boston Rob, Sandra, Tony, Ozzy, Cirie, […]

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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 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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Data Science R

Wingspan Data Analysis

August 18, 2024 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Wingspan is a great game even though I’ve only played it a few times. The mechanics are great, there are […]

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Data Science Survivor

Who has the best chance of winning Survivor?

July 12, 2024 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

This analysis is to see if particular demographics are more/less likely to win the season or at least make the […]

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R

{alone} v0.4 is now available

June 16, 2024 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Alone Australia season 2 has finished and is now available in the package and ready for analysis. As per usual […]

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R Survivor

The Sanctuary: Stats and data from {survivoR}

June 5, 2024 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

I wanted a space to throw all my tables and charts made using the {survivoR} R package into, so I […]

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R Survivor

{survivoR} 2.3.3 is now available

May 30, 2024 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Wrapping up season 46 and time for another release of survivoR. A few new things in this release including two […]

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Tidy Tuesday

Tidy Tuesday week 42: Taylor Swift

October 20, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

This week we’re looking at Taylor Swift songs and albums from the {taylor} R package. Don’t know a lot about […]

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