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Am I Getting Better at Darts?

Post by Joe Law, 2026-03-26 11:39:02.
Darts

I want to see if I am actually getting any better at this game that I do spend a fair bit of time playing. Rather than trust my eyes I am going to get my hands dirty and look at what the data can tell me.

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UK Poll Tracker

Post by Joe Law, 2026-03-19 12:06:02.
Politics

Tracking the poll results for the next general election which could be sooner than we think. For now it is just a data agregation of the polls by various providers scraped via Python and then organised into an API via PHP which is then displayed using a javaScript library.

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xG Lookback windows

Post by Joe Law, 2023-07-27 16:20:04.
FPL

We often see xG (expected goals) data being used to make FPL decisions but the data ranges selected for such use often feel arbitrary, how large should your xG lookback windows be and what is a useful data period to judge a player based on. In this article I look at the predictive power of xG data over several different date ranges.

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Tracking Form use in GA

Post by Joe Law, 2020-11-14 15:53:09.
Web Analytics

Forms are often where the magic happens, a successful form completion is often the main goal of a website so its vitally important that your form setup does not hinder your goals.

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