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What Partitioning Predicts about Baseball's All-Star Roster

In a HuffPost blog, Tim Chartier describes what a technique from data mining—partitioning—has to say about characteristics important to whether or not a baseball player makes the all-star team.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering that fan popularity figures into the process of selecting the team, the size of a player's Twitter following was found to be a significant statistic.

Read the post to learn what Chartier's analysis foresees for this year's team.

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Start Date: 
Monday, July 22, 2013