Last week I analyzed player rankings of the Arkham Horror LCG classes. This week I explain what I did in the data analysis. As I mentioned, this is the first time that I attempted inference with rank data, and I discovered how rich the subject is. A lot of the tools for the analysis I had to write myself, so you now have the code I didn’t have access to when I started.
This blog post was prompted by this meme posted in the Arkham Horror: The Card Game Facebook group:
In Data Science from Scratch, a book introducing data science using Python, Joel Grus said the following about R (pg. 302):
Although you can totally get away with not learning R, a lot of data scientists and data science projects use it, so it’s worth getting familiar with it.
In part, this is so that you can understand people’s R-based blog posts and examples and code; in part, this is to help you better appreciate the (comparatively) clean elegance of Python; and in part, this is to help you be a more informed participant in the never-ending “R versus Python” flamewars.
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