Sorry for the absence! I’ve left it a few weeks to see if anyone was going to post the videos from the Budapest world cup. Nobody has, so I’m just going to go ahead and do it. As previously discussed, Gu Bongil absolutely smashed this competition. The closest anyone got to him all day was … More Window of Opportunity: Gu (KOR) v Szatmari (HUN)
The big table for the Budapest world cup is up, and we’re looking forward to some pretty interesting matches in about 12 hours’ time. One we’re pretty confident we’ll see is Won v Yakimenko in the 16. These two faced off at the same comp last year in the 32, and Won dominated the match … More Get ’em while they’re down: Yakimenko (RUS) v Won (KOR)
More to come, but here’s a quick dashboard of some Australian demographics (from the Social Health Atlas of Australia: Local Government Area, published by the Public Health Information Development Unit at the University of Adelaide). https://public.tableausoftware.com/javascripts/api/viz_v1.js Learn About Tableau
Just got back from the Athens A-grade Senior World Cup a few days ago and spent most of my time there hanging out with referees and taking videos. The refereeing has changed significantly in the last couple of years, with a strong element of rewarding fencers for accomplishing the actions that they attempt, while penalising … More Trends in refereeing 2014: Decisions from the Athens World Cup
The last post and its conclusions (in a nutshell: start the bout in slow prep and bias towards the attack; move towards fast prep and defence in the second half) seem to have generated some interest and more than a few questions. Main groups of questions were: What datasets did you use, and plan to … More Slow preparations and the attack