Probabilistic analysis of Scoring ≥ 100 runs in cricket — Ever since I was a kid watching my team Pakistan play, I had a fascination with the score 100. I am sure many people will resonate with wanting their favorite batsman to end up scoring a century. However, everyone knows that not every batsman knock results in 100. The event…

Personalization is the name of the game in the telecom industry — For the past two years, I have been working in the personalization and contextual marketing department of one of the major mobile operators in Pakistan. For people who don’t know personalization is designing products, recommendations, and ads for individuals based on their attributes and preferences. Telecommunications is an oligopoly market…

Data preparation & binary classification modeling of centuries in cricket — Centuries are a celebrated event in cricket, usually resulting in match-winning innings by the batsman. As a statistics enthusiast, it felt like a great problem to model because it is not only immensely interesting, the novelty of the problem did make it challenging. …

How to make Sankey diagrams in Plotly — Sankey diagrams are used to visualize flow or processes, as the above image shows how many transitions/flow between different customer segments. The specific business problem was to see in 6 months which customer segment is growing, or shrinking and how are customers switching month on month. There are three customer…

Cheat sheet for editing the background, ticks, and annotations in Matplotlib — Matplotlib is the most extensive plotting library in python, arguably one of the most frequently used. If you’re like me and you often forget the precise code to format plots, this piece is written specifically for you. Background One of the easiest and simplest ways to make your graphs stand out…

Comparing the combined distribution of returns of Bitcoin & Ethereum — Ethereum and Bitcoin currently dominate the crypto market, at the moment of writing this piece they have a combined market capitalization of approximately $1.05 Trillion. They are also the oldest cryptocurrencies that still are around and play a significant part in the market. Keeping this in mind, I thought it…

Evaluating player performances using descriptive statistics — Pakistan Super League 2022 is ongoing with amazing performances across the board. Cricket analytics is a growing field but in all honestly, it is currently miles behind the statistical analysis used in other sports like baseball and football (or so I believe). As someone with an academic background in statistics…

Looking at Bitcoin’s historic prices and seeing how market conditions changed through time — Bitcoin is all the rage these days, it has both its supporter and detractors. Each of whom is equally fanatic in their opinion of the cryptocurrency. It represents financial freedom for bitcoin maximalists, while it is nothing more than a fad for critics. Regardless of your opinion on the subject…

I’m sure that with all the hype surrounding data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, you’ve been given the impression that data is infallible. People building these models are wizards who know what they are doing. …