Using R to analyze pro motorcycle racing

EMC recently ran a competion to find out why John McGuinness, the legendary motorcycle racer known as the "Morecambe Missile", is outperforms the average motorcycle racer. To answer this question, EMC instrumented his bike and his suit with a number of real-time sensors. (Data collected included gear and RPM for the bike, and heart rate and acceleration for the rider.) They did the same for Adam Child, a motorcycle racing journalist who acted as a "control" in this study. The two motorcyclists then completed 10 laps of Circuit Monteblanco in Spain, and the sensor data was provided for analysis in...

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