Star Trek Analytics.

Posted by Miss Cellania in Movies & SciFi on July 31, 2007 at 6:53 pm


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Matt Bailey uses Star Trek to teach analytics. In this example, he tackles the “red shirt” phenomenon. Part of his data:

* Yellow-shirt crewperson deaths: 6 (10%)
* Blue-Shirt crewperson deaths: 5 (8 %)
* Engineering smock crewperson deaths: 4
* Red-Shirt crewperson deaths: 43 (73%)

So, the basic segmentation of factors allows us to confirm that red-shirted crewmembers died more than any other crewmembers on the original Star Trek series.

He then goes into an in-depth analysis, with the conclusion that red shirts are more likely to survive when Captain Kirk finds a love interest. Link -via Metafilter


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8 comments to "Star Trek Analytics."

  1. Andrew32
    July 31st, 2007 at 10:49 pm

    i love this

  2. Ali S.
    July 31st, 2007 at 11:06 pm

    I think this is why I don't like wearing red shirts...my fear of dying an untimely (albeit ridiculously funny) death...in space.

  3. Alex
    August 1st, 2007 at 1:17 am

    Poor Ensign Ricky. It's always him - the Kenny of Star Trek...

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  8. nate
    October 25th, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    The red shirts are security right? Hence more deaths.


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