{"id":46,"date":"2024-05-02T02:38:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T02:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2024-05-02T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T03:55:00","slug":"quantitative-and-research-skills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/quantitative-and-research-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantitative and Research Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Over my time at Muhlenberg I have developed quantitative analysis skills through various research projects. Below are two examples of projects and papers that I have done that put these skills on display. The first is a paper regarding Competitive Balance in the NBA&#8217;s Eastern Conference. As described in the content, I created scatter plots, compiled data, and calculated a common competitive balance statistic to make an informed decision. In the second link, I was tasked with attempting to predict attendance in Major League Baseball. I scraped data from Baseball Reference and other sources and ran a linear regression to determine what factors have the greatest effect on a home team&#8217;s attendance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file aligncenter\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e20be0f5-9cd1-4f3a-b09a-963ea8d65b45\" href=\"http:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CompBalanceJackK.docx\">CompBalance<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80\" style=\"width: NaNpx;\" src=\"http:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CompBalanceJackK-1.docx\" alt=\"\">JackK<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CompBalanceJackK.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e20be0f5-9cd1-4f3a-b09a-963ea8d65b45\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file aligncenter\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-7f2352d1-62c8-4548-9b8d-4157eda2e3d1\" href=\"http:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AnalysisProjectReportJackK.docx\">AnalysisProjectReportJackK<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AnalysisProjectReportJackK.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-7f2352d1-62c8-4548-9b8d-4157eda2e3d1\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over my time at Muhlenberg I have developed quantitative analysis skills through various research projects. Below are two examples of projects and papers that I have done that put these skills on display. The first is a paper regarding Competitive Balance in the NBA&#8217;s Eastern Conference. As described in the content, I created scatter plots,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/quantitative-and-research-skills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quantitative and Research Skills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.jackkent.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}