An Examination of Sport Climbing with Quang Nguyen

Open Source Sports

We discuss An Examination of Olympic Sport Climbing Competition Format and Scoring System with Quang Nguyen (@qntkhvn). This paper won the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference Reproducible Research Competition in November 2021.

Quang Nguyen completed his Master of Science in Applied Statistics at Loyola University Chicago in 2021. He recently spent the Spring 2022 semester working as an instructor in the Dept of Mathematics and Statistics at Loyola. Quang previously completed his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Data Science at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Quang's current interests include statistics in sports, data science, statistics and data science education, and reproducibility. He is a die-hard supporter of Manchester United F.C. of the English Premier League. And last but not least, Quang is excited to join the Dept of Statistics and Data Science at CMU as a first-year PhD student this coming Fall 2022.

For additional references mentioned in the show:

• Quang's blog posts: https://qntkhvn.netlify.app/blog.html
• Code for paper: https://github.com/qntkhvn/climbing
• Inducing Any Feasible Level of Correlation to Bivariate Data With Any Marginals
• R copula package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/copula/index.html and book: http://copula.r-forge.r-project.org/book/
• UConn Sports Analytics Symposium (UCSAS)
• CRAN Task View for Sports Analytics: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/SportsAnalytics.html