A Flow Map/Sankey Diagram showing the complete results from the World Cup model: The chart has alternating nodes (blue bars) for teams and matches. Size of flows are proportional to the chances of a country being part of a match (from country to match bar) or proportional to the chances of winning a match (from […]
In a previous post, I showed results from a model that gives a 23 percent change of victory for Germany in this year’s World Cup. It is the highest score. So, can I jump and say that Germany will win it, or worse yet, can I bet my savings that it will do so? Short […]
I do not care for football (soccer). So what do you do in order not to be totally alienated from the surrounding conversations in a world cup year? More so when the cup is happening in your home country? To me it involves running some R script to assess the chances for each team and […]