May 4 • 18M

The sumo giant-killers

A lot less literal than the notorious Jack

Mary Pat Campbell
 
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Public finance, pensions, mortality trends from the perspective of Meep (Mary Pat Campbell), a life-annuity actuary. Less frequent topics: data visualization, actuarial politics, literature, opera, and sumo.
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DOSUKOI Sumo Salon — Giant-killers! available streaming for free until May 30, 2022

two men in sumo wrestling
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Twitter avatar for @meepbobeepMary Pat Campbell @meepbobeep
@SumoFollower Okay, I haven't fully updated for the May banzuke, fwiw, just updated the Jan 2022 scatterplot I got from fredpink.com Can see the general trend, tho... can easily see where the big guys vs little guys are
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April 26th 2022

Twitter avatar for @meepbobeepMary Pat Campbell @meepbobeep
@SumoFollower @lostinmyminds I didn’t color the clusters but you can see my labels from the January basho
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April 27th 2022

The Enho v Tochinoshin bout I referred to (I was exaggerating about kicking his legs in the air):

Hakkeyoi!

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