Is he better at shooting freethrows with his mouthguard IN or OUT?

A popular website for data science competitions is www.kaggle.com It hosts open competitions with prizes based on final rankings. It also lists cumulative competitor ratings over a moving window. Individual competitor X rating = sum of scores from competitions. Formula for individual competitor X from 1 competition is "scoreX", which for each X is a nonlinear function of teamSizeX and teamRankX. IF X submits solo, finishing 1st, THEN at deadline scoreX = 100,000. What happens with 10 teams when cor(teamSizeX, teamRankX = -1.0, and we vary teamSizeX or teamRankX?

Data regarding severe weather events in the United States from 1950 through Novermber 2011 has been collected and reported by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is publicly available at https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/repdata%2Fdata%2FStormData.csv.bz2. This study examines the impact of various types of events on public health and on the economy.

My solution to Project 1, Repro Research. Coursera/JHU, July 18 2014