Thomas Aston

PhD Researcher in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh.

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This month, I launched my newsletter, xGuff, which is a place for me to share some sports data projects which don’t serve much purpose other than to mildly amuse myself.

In the first article I developed a dataset of transcripts for Premier League manager’s press conferences, then performed approximate string matching to find instances of some of football’s favourite cliches, like “one game at a time” in the transcripts. The aim was to see how often these phrases are used, who uses them most, and whether they correlate at all with actual league position.

You can find the full article here: xGuff - Cliches.

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