EP: This is a less technical adaptation of the original Hockey and Euclid guest post on WAR On Ice. The underlying math will be discussed briefly in the footnotes.
Spatial reasoning is an innate characteristic in humans. It allows us to intuit conclusions from imagery, which may be exploited by graphical representation of data.1For my money, Micah McCurdy belongs in a class of his own when it comes to hockey-related data viz. You can donate to his cause on Patreon. You’ve no doubt inadvertently benefited from this fact if you’ve ever gleaned information from a chart or visualization. Elements like proximity between points are more easily interpreted in this fashion than they are through the examination of numeric data. In many ways, this idea was the first building block of what would become a generalized method of computing statistical similarity between hockey players. Continue reading “Hockey and Euclid: Calculating Statistical Similarity Between Players”
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1. | ↑ | For my money, Micah McCurdy belongs in a class of his own when it comes to hockey-related data viz. You can donate to his cause on Patreon. |