📊 Modules by Statistics and Data Science Topic

Analyzing Lap Times for the 2023 F1 Miami Grand Prix

Summary Statistics
Data Visualization
Outliers

Investigating lap time statistics for Max Verstappen during the 2023 F1 Miami Grand Prix

Jun 8, 2026
Norah Kuduk, Ivan Ramler

Can Midseason Records Predict WNBA Playoff Teams?

Data Cleaning
Missing Data
Frequency Tables

Clean WNBA team-game data and investigate whether teams ranked in the top eight midway through the season tend to make the playoffs.

May 27, 2026
Kristen Varin, Ivan Ramler

Women’s 100m Olympic Swimming: Comparing Strokes and Eras

Boxplots
Confidence Intervals
Two-Sample Tests

This module explores results from women’s 100m Olympic swimming events between 1964 and 2024, comparing different strokes and examining how times have changed over time.

Mar 13, 2026
Brendan Karadenes, Ivan Ramler, Robin Lock

PGA - Drive for Show, Putt for Dough?

Correlation

Using tournament data for professional golfers to see if driving or putting are more strongly related to success.

Feb 25, 2026
Alyssa Bigness, Robin Lock

Strength Ratios - Flat Dumbbell Press to Barbell Bench Press

Data Collection Methods
Confidence Intervals

Critically exploring self reported strength ratios.

Feb 24, 2026
Vivian Johnson, Ivan Ramler

Pickleball: Estimating the proportion of dependable DUPR ratings

Confidence Intervals
Proportions

Estimate the proportion of collegiate pickleball players who have a dependable overall DUPR reliability score (of 60% or higher).

Dec 4, 2025
Faith Rhinehart, Ivan Ramler, Jessica Chapman

BlackJack Logistic Regression

Logistic Regression
Binary Data

An Introduction to Logistic Regression Using BlackJack

Jul 23, 2025
Andrew Tran, Nicholas Clark

MMA Inter-rater Reliability Data Analysis

Inter-rater Reliability

Explore statistics used to measure judges’ consistency and reliability and apply them to judging of MMA fights.

Jun 16, 2025
Caleb Skinner, Joshua Patrick, PhD, Connor Bryson, Rodney X. Sturdivant, PhD

Olympic Rowing Medals Between 1900 and 2022 - Data Wrangling

dplyr
filtering
grouping and summarizing
mutating

Arranging data to analyze the total number of medals and the weighted points for nations competing in rowing events in the Summer Olympic Games between 1900 and 2022.

Jun 5, 2025
Abigail Smith, Robin Lock, Ivan Ramler

Olympic Rowing Medals Between 1900 and 2022 - Summary Statistics

distribution and skewness
outlier detection
summary statistics
confounding variable

The total number of medals and the weighted points for nations competing in rowing events in the Summer Olympic Games between 1900 and 2022.

Jun 5, 2025
Abigail Smith, Ivan Ramler, Robin Lock

American Ninja Warrior - Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis

Kaplan-Meier
Log Rank test
Nonparametric tests

Exploring Survival Analysis using the Kaplan-Meier method with American Ninja Warrior data.

Jun 4, 2025
Jonathan Lieb, Rodney X. Sturdivant

Expected Goals in Soccer

Logistic Regression
Feature Engineering
Under Sampling

An Introduction to Expected Goals Using Soccer

May 19, 2025
Colman Kim, Andrew Lee

MLS - Types of Decision Errors

Decision Errors

Exploring types of decision errors

Mar 30, 2025
Jonathan Lieb

PGA - Scoring Average Confidence Intervals

Single Mean Confidence Intervals
Single Mean Hypothesis Testing

Exploring Single Mean Confidence Intervals with Golf Data

Jan 25, 2025
Jonathan Lieb

PGA - Scoring Average Confidence Intervals (No R)

Single Mean Confidence Intervals
Single Mean Hypothesis Testing

Exploring Single Mean Confidence Intervals with Golf Data

Jan 25, 2025
Jonathan Lieb

Linear Regression with Categorical Variables and ANOVA: Ace Rates in Tennis by Surface

ANOVA
Tennis

Using tennis to teach ANOVA and linear regression with categorical variables

Jan 22, 2025
Zachary O. Binney, Heyi Yang

MLB Injuries - Introductory Time Series Analysis

Time series plots
Time series decomposition
Residual analysis
Simple forecasting

Exploring MLB injury data through time series analysis and forecasting.

Nov 26, 2024
Jonathan Lieb

What’s the prime age of an MLB player?

Data wrangling
Dplyr basics
Tidyverse

Use data wrangling skills to explore the prime age of MLB players

Jul 26, 2024
Jazmine Gurrola, Joseph Hsieh, Dat Tran, Katie Fitzgerald

Introduction to Elo ratings

Elo ratings
Brier score
prediction

An introduction to Elo ratings using NFL game outcomes.

Jul 9, 2024
Ron Yurko

MMA Fight Decisions

Variable types
Chi-square test (2x2)
Fisher Exact test
Chi-square test (rxc)
Mosaic plots

Exploring MMA fight decisions by weight category

Jul 1, 2024
Rodney X. Sturdivant, Ph.D., Ian Young, Joshua Patrick, Ph.D., Connor Bryson

2023 Boston Marathon - Variability in Finish Times

histograms
summary statistics
bimodal data

Describing finish time for runners in the 2023 Boston Marathon

May 13, 2024
Ivan Ramler, Jack Fay

FIRST Robotics Competition - Winning Chances

Brier score
prediction assessment

Evaluating the predicted winning probabilities against the actual outcomes.

Mar 5, 2024
Jake Tan

League of Legends - Buffing and Nerfing

outliers
summary statistics

Investigating game play statistics for League of Legends champions in two different patches.

Feb 21, 2024
Ivan Ramler, George Charalambous, A.J. Dykstra

Lacrosse Faceoff Proportions

Hypothesis testing
Single proportion

Using data from NCAA Div I lacrosse teams to explore the importance of winning faceoffs

Feb 5, 2024
Jack Fay, Ivan Ramler, A.J. Dykstra

Lacrosse PLL vs. NLL

Difference in two means

Comparing scoring rates between indoor and outdoor profesional lacrosse leagues.

Feb 5, 2024
Jack Cowan, Ivan Ramler, A.J. Dykstra, Robin Lock

NASCAR Transformation Module

Linear regression
Transformations
Polynomial regression

Using NASCAR driver rating data to explore a series of transformations to improve linearity in regression.

Feb 5, 2024
Alyssa Bigness, Ivan Ramler, Jack Fay

Ironman Triathlon (Canadian Females) - Multiple Linear Regression

Linear regression

Using Lake Placid Ironman triathlon results for female Canadian finishers to predict run times for participants based on both swim and bike times.

Feb 5, 2024
A.J. Dykstra, Ivan Ramler

Stolen Bases

Normality tests
This lesson introduces students to the concept of normality tests (Shapiro-Wilks and Kolmogorov-Smirnov) and summation of normal distributions to investigate stolen base…
Jul 23, 2023
Andrew Lee and Jacob Hurtubise

Unbreakable Records in Baseball

Bernoulli distribution
Binomial distribution
Chi-Square Test
This lesson introduces students to the Bernoulli trial and Binomial Experiments to understand the probability of breaking one of the longest lasting records in baseball. We…
Jul 23, 2023
Andrew Lee and Fr Gabriel Costa

Predicting NHL Shooting Percentages

linear regression

An Introduction to Simple Linear Regression

Jul 23, 2023
Sam Ventura

Marathon Record-Setting Over Time

Exponential distribution
Poisson process

Determining whether the setting of world records in the marathon is historically a Poisson process.

Jul 23, 2023
Nicholas Clark, Rodney Sturdivant, and Kate Sanborn

Ironman Triathlete Performance

Scatterplots
Correlation

Gaining insight into the performance patterns of triathletes by exploring the relationships between swimming, biking, and running times.

Jul 23, 2023
Michael Schuckers, Matt Abell, AJ Dykstra, Sarah Weaver, Ivan Ramler, and Robin Lock
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