2019 Drum Corps International Semifinals Recap and Finals Predictions

Semifinals Recap Lots to unpack about last night’s Semifinals results. First off, the Blue Devils pulled out another first place finish edging the Bluecoats by 0.15 points. However, it was the Bluecoats who actually scored worse than they had the previous night!

2019 Drum Corps International Prelim Recap and Semifinals Predictions

Prelims Recap I did end up getting to see more Corps last night in the theater than I originally thought I would. I arrived shortly after 8 PM CST when the Blue Stars were performing on the field. Theater was not full

2019 Drum Corps International World Championship Preview

It has definitely been an exciting year for the 2019 Drum Corps International Summer Tour! Lots of movement in the Top 12 Corps throughout the summer with two clear favorites for Finals this weekend which we’ll get to in a moment. I

Forecasting Oil Futures with SARIMAX: A Simple and “Crude” Approach

Introduction A few weeks ago, I published a post on predicting Avocado Prices that, I thought, turned out pretty well using the SARIMAX algorithm in the Statsmodels library in Python.  Shortly afterward, while on a trip to Houston, I was talking about that blog post with

The Summer of Santa Clara Vanguard and Babylon

Admittedly, it has been a very long time since I’ve updated this website.  Life just keeps getting in the way.  However, I did want to go ahead and update the website with a quick project that I came up with a couple