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Improving the Strava Training Log

Visualising the training patterns of marathon runners using Strava, Python, and Matplotlib.

12 min readNov 16, 2023

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My Irish Life Dublin Marathon

A Personal-Best Race Report

10 min readOct 30, 2023

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My Irish Life Dublin Marathon

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Six Lessons for Recreational Runners to Run Their Best Marathon

Actionable insights from a data analysis of 4 million marathons.

7 min readOct 11, 2023

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Six Lessons for Recreational Runners to Run Their Best Marathon

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The Controlled Fade

Why a positive split might be best for your next marathon.

13 min readSep 3, 2023

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The Controlled Fade

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Three Million Wordle Tweets Later …

What an analysis of tweets reveals about Wordle, its words and its players.

10 min readFeb 2, 2022

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Pacing, Effort and Stamina

A technical analysis of recent Dublin City Marathon races

12 min readNov 29, 2023

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How to Create a Heat-Line Plot

Creating a multi-dimensional segmented line graph

4 min readNov 23, 2023

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Will a Training Break Ruin my Marathon?

A Large-Scale Data Analysis of the Performance Costs of Training Disruptions when Preparing for the Marathon

10 min readJan 13, 2023

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Will a Training Break Ruin my Marathon?

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On Fading Lockdown Effectiveness

A Data Analysis of the Public’s Adherence to Travel Restrictions During the First Year of the SARS-COV2 Pandemic.

6 min readJun 29, 2022

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On Fading Lockdown Effectiveness

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Big Data in Little Wordle

A Large-Scale Data Analysis of ~70 Million Games of Wordle

39 min readJun 1, 2022

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Big Data in Little Wordle

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barrysmyth

barrysmyth

Professor of Computer Science at University College Dublin. Focus on AI/ML and data science with applications in e-commerce, media, and health.

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