Articles by Kari Baker

About Kari Baker

Kari is a HEMA student at Mordhau Historical Combat. She began going to HEMA classes after seeing a demonstration at a Comic Con in 2014. After a multi-year hiatus, she returned to HEMA in 2021. She has dabbled in various other martial arts, starting with Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun in 2011. Kari has earned a master’s degree in Data Science and holds bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and English Linguistics. She works as a healthcare data guru, with day-to-day tasks involving statistics, analytics, visualization, and programming. Kari is also a Eurovision fan, a PlayStation trophy hunter, an award-winning trophy guide writer, and loves wearing pretty dresses.

Can I Hit That?

March 21, 2023 Kari Baker 0

Have you ever wondered what your chance was of winning an exchange against Sean Franklin? Look no further than “Can I Hit That?”, a fun new tool for looking at your probability of winning exchanges against your HEMA friends!

WTF: Women’s Tournament Forecasting

December 19, 2022 Kari Baker 0

Sean told me one day “I want a ‘Should you run a women’s tournament?’ calculator.” Being the people pleaser I am, of course I’m going to try my hand at it.

What Is A Normal HEMA Rating?

November 23, 2022 Kari Baker 0

This is an article about populations and distributions, but to be honest you’re going to read to see if you’re above or below the average rating.

Combat Con 2022: Why Sample Size Matters

August 22, 2022 Kari Baker 0

Combat Con 2022 had a hot take on how to run a longsword tournament: eliminate self-selection of skill level and, instead, have people fight in preliminary pools to get placed into different tiers based on their performance. Let’s see if that worked out the way it was intended.

Doing A Double-Take At Predicting Doubles

June 1, 2022 Kari Baker 0

It didn’t work before, but I tried some new things to predict doubles. Could this be the success I have been looking for?

Double, Double Toil and Trouble with Predictive Modeling

May 4, 2022 Kari Baker 0

Time to take a stab at predicting doubles. How successful will this be?

A Gentle Introduction to Predictive Modeling: HEMA Edition

March 21, 2022 Kari Baker 0

Predictive modeling can be a very complex topic, but I’ll take it easy on you and give you some fun HEMA-related examples!

HEY! Where the HEMA Women At?: A Graphical Analysis of Women’s Tournaments and Participation

February 3, 2022 Kari Baker 0

Ever wonder about the prevalence of women competitors and tournaments tailored for them at events? Well, we’re going to take a little dive into the fHEMAle world now.