đź“Š Modules by Statistics Topic

 

2023 Boston Marathon - Variability in Finish Times

Data Visualization
Summary Statistics

Visualizaing finish times for runners in the 2023 Boston Marathon.

May 13, 2024
Ivan Ramler, Jack Fay
 

2023-24 PWHL - Visualizing the Regular Season

Data Visualization
Grouped Comparisons
Data Wrangling

Visualizing scoring data for players during the 2023-24 Professional Women’s Hockey League season

Jun 6, 2024
Ivan Ramler, Brendan Karadenes
 

2024 College Ultimate Championship Statistics

Data Cleaning
Joining / Merging
Data Visualization

Statistics from the 2024 College Ultimate Championships to be tidied and plotted.

Jun 26, 2024
Gavin Cassidy, Robin Lock
 

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

May 15, 2024
Norah Kuduk, Ivan Ramler
 

Basketball

These modules use basketball data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Beijing 2022 Olympics - Cleaning and Summarizing Data

Data Wrangling
Joining / Merging
Data Visualization

Demonstrating how to clean data with different packages and summarise the data using dplyr.

Mar 8, 2024
Eric Seltzer, Ivan Ramler
 

Canoeing

These modules use canoeing data to teach topics in statistics and data science.

Clinton Canoe Regatta: Graphing and Data Manipulation

Data Visualization
Data Wrangling

Using explore data from the Clinton Canoe Regatta using data wrangling and visualization.

Jun 17, 2025
Phoebe Jones, Robin Lock, Ivan Ramler
 

Combat Sports

These modules use combat_sports data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Correlations in Division 1 Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse

Linear Regression
Indicator Variables

How much of an impact does winning the draw/face-off have on the final results of a lacrosse game?

Apr 5, 2025
Jill Tyrrell, Ivan Ramler
 

Dakar Rally Analysis

Linear Regression
Hypothesis Testing

Investigating The 2024 Dakar Rally biker rankings and times, throughout all 12 stages.

Mar 28, 2024
Matt Maslow, Ivan Ramler
 

Disc Golf

These modules use disc_golf data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Disc Golf Pro Tour - Driving or Putting?

Correlation
Data Visualization
Summary Statistics

What is more correlated with success on the Disc Golf Pro Tour, Driving or Putting?

Jun 13, 2024
Gavin Cassidy, Ivan Ramler
 

Division Three Volleyball Timeouts

Proportions
Confidence Intervals

Investigating the effect of timeouts on the outcome of a set.

Jul 12, 2024
Ivan Ramler, Cassie Richter, Sierra Hess, Vivian Johnson
 

Do NBA Draft Picks Matter? Exploring Player Minutes with ANOVA

ANOVA
Hypothesis Testing
Confidence Intervals
Summary Statistics
Data Visualization

This module uses NBA draft data to test for differences in average minutes played across early, mid, and late first-round picks using ANOVA and visualizations.

Jul 1, 2024
Vivian Johnson, Robin Lock
 

Do NBA Draft Picks Matter? Wrangling and Analyzing Player Minutes

ANOVA
Post Hoc Comparisons
Data Visualization
Data Wrangling
Tidyverse

This module involves cleaning and wrangling NBA draft data, creating visualizations, and using ANOVA with post hoc comparisons to examine differences in average minutes played across first-round pick groups.

Jul 1, 2024
Vivian Johnson, Robin Lock
 

Does Aggression Pay Off? Modeling Handball Player Performance

Linear Regression
Data Visualization
Correlation

Use linear regression to model handball performance as a function of offensive actions and penalties.

Jun 12, 2024
Abigail Smith, Robin Lock, Ivan Ramler
 

Esports

These modules use esports data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

FINA World Junior Championships 2022 Diving Data

ANOVA
Post Hoc Comparisons

Preliminary diving results of womens 16-18 1m springboard from the 2022 FINA World Junior Championships.

Apr 15, 2024
Emma Deering, Robin Lock
 

Fitness and Training

These modules use fitness_and_training data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Football American

These modules use football_american data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Football Recruiting and Impact in the NFL

Data Wrangling
Data Visualization
Tidyverse

Cleaning and analyzing football data for top high school wide receivers who played in the NFL in 2023.

Jul 17, 2024
Brendan Karadenes, Robin Lock
 

Formula 1 2021 World Championship

Data Visualization
Data Wrangling

Visualizing F1 data

Apr 2, 2024
Charlie Gartner, Ivan Ramler
 

Golf

These modules use golf data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Gymnastics

These modules use gymnastics data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Handball

These modules use handball data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Hockey

These modules use hockey data to teach topics in statistics and data science.

Investigating The Difference in Olympic Figure Skating Scores Throughout the Years

ANOVA
Post Hoc Comparisons

Using ANOVA to explore differences in mean scores throughout the years of Winter Olympic Figure Skating

Jun 27, 2025
Faith Rhinehart, Jessica Chapman, Ivan Ramler
 

Investigating the Impact of Tournament Length and Surface Type on Win Percentages in Professional Tennis

Data Visualization

Describing distribution shapes and interpreting visualizations or Men’s Professional Tennis data.

Jun 24, 2024
Eric Seltzer, Ivan Ramler
 

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
 

Ironman Triathlon (Canadian Females) - Simple Linear Regression

Linear Regression

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

Feb 5, 2024
A.J. Dykstra
 

Lacrosse

These modules use lacrosse data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Lacrosse Faceoff Proportions

One-Sample Tests
Proportions
Hypothesis Testing

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

Two-Sample Tests
Hypothesis Testing
Confidence Intervals
Simulation

Comparing scoring rates between indoor and outdoor profesional lacrosse leagues.

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

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
 

Men’s Olympic Figure Skating - Two-Way ANOVA

ANOVA
Post Hoc Comparisons

Exploring Interaction and Main Effects on US Olympic Figure Skating

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Faith Rhinehart
 

Merging Multiple Seasons of NCAA Div 1 Softball Statistics

Joining / Merging
SQL
R

Actvity that uses multiple seasons of NCAA Div 1 Softball batting statistics to practice merging data tables.

Feb 5, 2024
Sarah Weaver, Ivan Ramler
 

Modeling the Impact of Age on Powerlifting

Linear Regression
Data Visualization
Data Wrangling

Exploring the impact of age on powerlifting using polynomial regression.

May 8, 2025
Sarah Sheldon, Ivan Ramler
 

Motor Sports

These modules use motor_sports data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Multisport

These modules use multisport data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

NASCAR Transformation Module

Linear Regression
Transformations

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
 

NBA Wingspan & Performance

Webscraping
Data Visualization
Data Wrangling

Exploring wingspan and performance in the NBA by cleaning, merging and analyzing datasets.

Jun 23, 2025
Cooper Olney, Ivan Ramler
 

NCAA Women’s Gymnastics and Bootstrap Distributions

Bootstrap Methods
Confidence Intervals
Paired Data

Use bootstrap distributions and confidence intervals to compare beam scores between 1st and 4th place teams at the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics National Championship.

Jul 22, 2024
Vivian Johnson, Robin Lock
 

Olympic Rowing Medals Between 1900 and 2022 - Data Wrangling

Data Wrangling
Tidyverse

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

Summary Statistics
Outliers
Data Visualization
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
 

Olympic Swimming - Changes in the 100m Women’s Event

Boxplots
Confidence Intervals
Two-Sample Tests

Describing 100m event times for Women Olympic Swimmers from 1924 to 2020

Jun 24, 2025
Brendan Karadenes, Robin Lock, Ivan Ramler
 

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 5, 2024
Alyssa Bigness, Robin Lock
 

Professional Bull Riding Analysis

Linear Regression
Logistic Regression

Investigating a collection of professional bull riders and their statistics from 2023 season for the Touring Pro Division.

Mar 6, 2024
Matt Maslow, Ivan Ramler

Raisin River Results and Oulier Impact/Exclusion

Linear Regression
Outliers

Investigate how water flow relates to race dropout rates in the Raisin River Race by fitting a linear regression model.

Jun 11, 2025
Phoebe Jones, Robin Lock
 

Rowing

These modules use rowing data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Running

These modules use running data to teach topics in statistics and data science.

Sampling Distributions: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 2024-25 Points

Sampling Distributions
Simulation
Central Limit Theorem

Explore the concept of sampling distributions using Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s regular season scoring data to simulate playoff scenarios.

Jul 1, 2025
Cooper Olney, Ivan Ramler, Robin Lock
 

Skating

These modules use skating data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Ski to Sea

Correlation

Using Ski to Sea results data to see which leg (sport) is more strongly related to a team’s overall finish time.

May 8, 2024
Sam Peacock, Ivan Ramler
 

Skiing

These modules use skiing data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Softball

These modules use softball data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Strength Ratios - Flat Dumbbell Press to Barbell Bench Press

Data Collection Methods
Confidence Intervals

Critically exploring self reported strength ratios.

Jun 13, 2024
Vivian Johnson, Ivan Ramler
 

Swimming

These modules use swimming data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Tennis

These modules use tennis data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Triathlon

These modules use triathlon data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

UFC: Striking Accuracy Percentages and the Normal Distribution

Normal Distribution
z-scores
Percentiles

Analyzing UFC data from 1993-2021 using the Normal Distribution

Jun 6, 2024
Brendan Karadenes, Ivan Ramler
 

Ultimate Frisbee

These modules use ultimate_frisbee data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

Volleyball

These modules use volleyball data to teach topics in statistics and data science.
 

What Can Box Scores Tell Us? Exploring WNBA Player Stats

Data Wrangling
Missing Data
Frequency Tables

Explore WNBA box score data to compare positional differences in player performance using summary statistics and visualizations.

May 15, 2024
Kristen Varin, Ivan Ramler
 

Women’s Alpine Skiing Giant Slalom - Paired Data

Paired Data
Confidence Intervals
Hypothesis Testing

Statistics from two runs at a Women’s World Cup Alpine Skiing Giant Slalom Race at Mont-Tremblant

May 15, 2024
Emelia Agostinelli, Robin Lock
 

Women’s Alpine Skiing World Giant Slalom - Data Cleaning

Data Wrangling
Webscraping

Statistics from two runs at a Women’s World Cup Alpine Skiing Giant Slalom Race at Mont-Tremblant

May 15, 2024
Emelia Agostinelli, Robin Lock
 

Women’s NCAA Basketball - Building a shiny app

Data Visualization
Shiny
R

Tutorial on how to make an intro shiny app using Caitlin Clark’s NCAA season statistics.

Apr 3, 2025
Abby Sikora, Ivan Ramler
 

World Cup Women’s 10k Classic Nordic Ski Race - Splits

Linear Regression
Correlation
ANOVA

Times and ranks of skiers taken at four different distance points (1.3, 4.3, 7.5, and 10k) in a 10k classic race in Trondheim, Norway.

May 16, 2024
Abigail Smith, Robin Lock

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