Was Dub right to expect to be done in 60 days?
On day 73 of season 11 of Alone, Dub commented that he thought it would be over around day 60. […]
Category: Data Science
Wingspan Data Analysis
Wingspan is a great game even though I’ve only played it a few times. The mechanics are great, there are […]
Are the chances of winning Survivor for some people getting better or worse?
Following up on my previous post, where I estimated the chances of winning and making the final Tribal Council for […]
Who has the best chance of winning Survivor?
This analysis is to see if particular demographics are more/less likely to win the season or at least make the […]
Can Jury Favorability Predict the Winner of Survivor?
I bang on a fair bit about jury favorability and the number of votes with jury members. This is because […]
Ignoring the IID assumption isn’t a great idea
The IID assumption (independent and identically distributed) is pretty important. Ignoring it can lead you to make incorrect conclusions (usually […]
Survivor Auction analysis: Should you bid on the first covered item?
The Survivor Auction is classic. Seeing hungry people bid, win, and then binge on the food they just purchased is […]
Should we expect balanced confessional counts in Survivor?
Confessional counts are highly scrutinised by the Survivor fandom. Fans don’t like seeing their favourites getting “purpled”. My feeling is […]
Tidy Tuesday week 37: Global Human Day
Interesting data this week from the Human Chronome Project which estimates how we spend our time on average across 8 […]
In Survivor is entering the merge down on numbers a disadvantage?
It’s usually seen as beneficial to enter the merge with the numbers. Here’s an analysis in R with the survivoR package to see if this is true.
Alone Australia is now included in {alone}
Alone Australia is now included in the {alone} R package as well as the cast of season 10 of the US version.
Alone Survival Analysis
Is there a difference in survival rate between men and women on Alone? Survival analysis in R with the Alone R package.
Do confessionals give away the winner of Survivor?
Confessional counts are often great for indicating who the key players are in a season of Survivor. But do confessionals […]
Alone R package: Datasets from the survival TV series
I have been watching the survival TV series ‘Alone,’ where 10 survivalists are dropped in an extremely remote area and […]
Select colours from an image in R with {eyedroppeR}
There are fancy ways to extract colours from images but sometimes it’s easier if you could simply click on the […]
