Author: Rennie Heza
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Week 8 – Rennie Heza
As the summer comes to a close, I find it difficult to fully reflect upon my time in the DSSRF17 program. Each week, I’ve reflected on particular hardships and decisions made. For the final week, I’d like to promote the program that has consumed my tim over the last 8 weeks. First, the program is…
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Week 6 – Rennie Heza
As we wrap up week six of the DSSRF program, I finally feel I have made a unique contribution to the rapidly changing world of sports analytics. Though my model is far from Earth-shattering, I am confident such a model could be used as a jumping-off point to continue immersing oneself in sports analytics. Such…
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Week 5 – Rennie Heza
This week our facilitators asked us to write about some of the challenges we’ve faced through the first 5 weeks of the DSSRF program. I will focus specifically on the struggles encountered in the fifth week. That is not to say I didn’t have issues through the first four weeks, but this week has been…
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Week 4 – Rennie Heza
From encoding Civil War documents to visualizing the Tate Collection, our program facilitators have exposed us to the wide-ranging applications of digital scholarship in the modern era of technology. The tools involved in these demonstrations have been equally comprehensive. Given the first year of the Bucknell DSSRF program is already halfway done, one of this…
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Week 3 – Rennie Heza
Jarome Iginla for Joe Nieuwendyk. Wayne Gretzky for Jimmy Carson and others. Trades like these permanently altered the NHL landscape in the late 20th century, and today, hockey professionals would unanimously agree that one team faired better than the other in both of these trades. Subban for Weber, Hall for Larsson, and Johansen for Jones.…