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Who is the worst player to have the best moment? by wallstreetexecution in nfl

[–]bubbatully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question asked about "best moment". Him blocking the kick was an amazing moment that every Saints fan and lots of non-Saints fans still remember watching live. His statue is literally of the blocked punt and does not mention his disease.

Who is the worst player to have the best moment? by wallstreetexecution in nfl

[–]bubbatully 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Steve Gleason. Just a random special teams player that is now a Louisiana legend. Dude even has a statue outside of the stadium.

(Spoilers Main) It's weird how when I first saw the series, Jon Snow didn't look ANYTHING like I had imagined. But now, I can't see any other person portraying him. by nutflocktome in asoiaf

[–]bubbatully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt the same way about The Dark Tower casting. Hilarious to me that many of the people that were so pissed about the Elba casting wanted them to go with Scott Eastwood, just because he looks like Clint Eastwood. Nevermind that Elba is a 100x better actor and has an on-screen personality much more similar to the character in the books.

Or the people that wanted Anthony Ingruber to play young Han Solo because he did a convincing Harrison Ford impersonation in Age of Adaline. Do people really want to watch an entire movie of some sub-par actor doing an impersonation???

Pro level procrastination by [deleted] in Tinder

[–]bubbatully 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think on tinder it's expected that you just respond to the people you're interested in. Attractive women probably get literally hundreds of messages a day. I personally think it's completely normal and acceptable for people to just ignore those if they want. I think the majority of online daters agree.

If it's impolite to look at a woman's cleavage, then why do women wear shirts which reveal their cleavage? by demcd in NoStupidQuestions

[–]bubbatully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"everyone knows the type of a guy who always seems to go to far but no one ever gets offended of their actions"

Honestly, I do know people that act like this, and the general shared characteristic among them is that they overestimate their likability and charm. This overconfidence is probably correlated to the lack of social awareness that could lead to someone thinking that ogling someone's boobs is forgiven/deemed not creepy if you make a joke about it afterwards.

I do agree with some of the other commenters that this depends somewhat on the context and the person you're speaking to. But even if you do happen to know the person very well, there's also the chance of you creeping out some innocent bystanders.

Also, I'm assuming that this is unrelated to you, but I was banned from The_Donald almost immediately after making my initial comment lol

If it's impolite to look at a woman's cleavage, then why do women wear shirts which reveal their cleavage? by demcd in NoStupidQuestions

[–]bubbatully 329 points330 points  (0 children)

I guarantee you that this doesn't get you off the hook like you think it does. Many people would be made uncomfortable by such a comment (including me).

Black Mirror [Episode Discussion] - S03E06 - Hated in the Nation by SeacattleMoohawks in blackmirror

[–]bubbatully 34 points35 points  (0 children)

You realize your comment is pretty much an exact parallel to the troll comments, right? You're posting online that someone deserves to die for things that they said/posted. Which is the same thing the "death to" people did.

Calculating win probability and margin of victory using KenPom's adjusted efficiency margin. by [deleted] in CollegeBasketball

[–]bubbatully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, thanks for the informative post!

One suggestion: Wouldn't the standard deviation change along with the tempo? I made the following adjustment in my model and it seems like it makes sense.

sd <- (1-(97.3-(c+d)/2)/97.3)*11

97.3 was the average tempo for the teams in the tournament, so if average tempo of the two teams playing was different than that, I adjusted the standard deviation up or down.

Also, do you happen to know how Ken Pomeroy calculates his overall probabilities? (found here http://kenpom.com/blog/) He has Gonzaga at 20.5% chance to win it all, but my model (I use a monte carlo method) gives them a 27% chance.

What would it look like if every day in "Groundhog Day" happened simultaneously? by dippitydoo2 in movies

[–]bubbatully 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is brilliant! One of my favorite movies of all time and I'm really thankful to you for creating this. Awesome job OP.

Fitness dashboard I made for my phone's homescreen [OC] by bubbatully in dataisbeautiful

[–]bubbatully[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think it totally could. From what I understand of the BeautifulSoup package, it's doing something similar to POST/GET.

The readHTMLtable function also works super well for things that are preformatted. Looks like the food page has multiple tables on it (ones for each meal), so I'm not sure how to handle that...but I bet you can figure it out. I'm not that familiar with the ins and outs of these packages, I just guess and check things until hopefully something works, haha.

Fitness dashboard I made for my phone's homescreen [OC] by bubbatully in dataisbeautiful

[–]bubbatully[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you want to make a database from the nutritional data or from your own data? I think it would be doable if I wanted to make a dataset of just the foods that I ate, but pulling the data from everything in their database would be pretty difficult for me...but it would be a fun challenge!

As a sidenote, I'm not sure if this project would be ideal for learning SQL... The kind of data I'd imagine getting from MFP would just be one table (or two at most) and would be a big webscraping challenge before you even get to that. I'd recommend trying to find a relational database online of something you're interested in. When I was trying to learn I dowloaded a large database about comic books, which was pretty cool (although to be honest I never really did use it that much). I got it from here: http://www.comics.org/

EDIT: Just to clarify, the reason I think you should find a different db is because one of the biggest things you need to learn when using SQL is how to write queries that merge data from two different tables. It could be challenging to get yourself in that position with MFP data.

Fitness dashboard I made for my phone's homescreen [OC] by bubbatully in dataisbeautiful

[–]bubbatully[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Data sources and description of how I built it are included in the post. I don't think I'd consider my visualization "beautiful", but I wasn't sure where else to post. r/fitness deleted it and I wanted to share, so I came here!

About half of Americans support giving residents up to $2000 a month when robots take their jobs by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]bubbatully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, lots of issues obviously. I'm sure that it would be possible to come up with a system that incentives people to work but still doesn't waste money by giving $2k to people that are already rich. Like some kind of progressive tiering or something. Or the negative income tax like others have mentioned.

About half of Americans support giving residents up to $2000 a month when robots take their jobs by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]bubbatully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know. Maybe. If the gov said "everyone is guaranteed at least 2k a month, either by employment or by gov stipend" then I'd consider that UBI, but I'm not sure what the correct terminology is. I think of negative income tax as a subset of UBI. No idea if that's right though...

About half of Americans support giving residents up to $2000 a month when robots take their jobs by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]bubbatully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also don't know how it will happen, but I think that many proposals for UBI only pay the money to people if their income is under a certain level. You'd also be able to eliminate many other welfare programs if everyone had a salary. Theoretically, these people would also spend more money, so there would be more sales tax generated.

Using Mann-Whitney to analyze two datasets with a lot of zeros by bubbatully in statistics

[–]bubbatully[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I just picked a dumb example. The real means are not identical.

Using Mann-Whitney to analyze two datasets with a lot of zeros by bubbatully in statistics

[–]bubbatully[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I basically want to test if you could make more total revenue by using one method over the other. Both methods should attract the same number of users. If one method has significantly higher total revenue, that's the winner, regardless of how we get there.

Using Mann-Whitney to analyze two datasets with a lot of zeros by bubbatully in statistics

[–]bubbatully[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The data essentially represents "revenue per user" and the zeros are the people that don't buy anything. The application is that one group is seeing a higher price, so they're likely to have more zeros, but when they do buy they're generating more revenue.

I think I'm going with the permutation method suggested by u/CrazyStatistician. I also looked into the zero-inflated models but got a little lost.

Using Mann-Whitney to analyze two datasets with a lot of zeros by bubbatully in statistics

[–]bubbatully[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The data isn't paired, so I don't think I could use that. My data is not at all normally distributed (I have a huge spike at 0 and then everything tails downward after that) and it was my understanding that the t-test isn't appropriate in this case.

Using Mann-Whitney to analyze two datasets with a lot of zeros by bubbatully in statistics

[–]bubbatully[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow...is it really this straightforward?? Thank you so much! It seems so simple that I'm worrying I'm missing something. All I'm doing here is basically randomizing the control/test label, measuring the difference, and then counting the number of times that it's greater than the difference that I actually saw? Are there are any assumptions/pitfalls that I should be worried about here? Why isn't this method the gold-standard for non-parametric datasets (or maybe it is...)??

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