The American Soccer Insights Summit is back for 2027. The Summit will be held at Rice University on March 26th and 27th, during a FIFA men's international break window. Registration is now open: americansoccerinsights.com/registration/
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#rstats carver, @nflverse.com wizard, pumpkin engineer, easily nerdsniped, he/him. soccer @ teamworks intelligence, mentor @dslc.io. tanho.ca
this is awesome, feels like a worthy successor to the OG atrebas post
A data.table and dplyr tour · Home
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Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse
Put it in perspective, here's Spain's opponents deserved win percentage based on play by @futi.live v #59 Cabo Verde: 3% v #65 Saudi Arabia: 1% v #21 Uruguay: 11% R32 v #22 Austria: 2% R16 v #6 Portugal: 25% Quarter v #10 Belgium: 3% Semi v #4 France: 7% Final v #2 Argentina: 2%
Spain just had the most dominant run in a FIFA World Cup (M) I can remember. There was no team they played that was on the field with them. Insane.
I'm starting a new newsletter. Yeah, I know, another newsletter. This one isn't about soccer though... it's about YOU 🤯 "The Post-Match Report" will release weekly and contain links, analysis, and updates on everything happening in soccer analytics. Publishing on @leaflet.pub. More info 👇
July 15: Penalties and Goats
The first edition of a weekly soccer analytics newsletter
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just so everyone knows, we're in an alternate timeline bc in the original timeline, the red card stood and the usmnt lost, so some rando asked "what if balo played", went back in time, caused this whole mess, and is currently discovering that while timelines are mutable, outcomes are not
That black hole in the left halfspace is Norway’s biggest achievement here
yknow how after unusually good performances athletes get special doping tests? We should test this ref for financial doping
if you're into J-League or this World Cup has made you interested in Japanese football, follow Ryo
Look, the work continues. I'm even more motivated now. I'll simply keep writing, watching, analyzing more #JLeague & Japanese football for y'all. Maybe I'll decide to step more into the industry aside from the consulting work I've been doing in the near future. Vamos. 🫡🇯🇵
🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats
Debating on posting we’re going to pens and then someone scores a goal immediately after I post this.
BBC News went live to Cabo Verde and then Cabo Verde scored a goal. Absolute scenes.
I can’t wait for Saudi Arabia and Cape Verde to advance as first and second place from this group
of the many entertaining things in this mexico/south africa match, my parents have been extremely amused by how some of these players are vigorously chewing gum, especially south africa's #20
Yummy Food Cartoon Character Funny Face
Alt: cartoon character chewing gum vigorously
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{beekeeper} 0.5.0 is available on GitHub! It currently generates documented #RStats functions for every endpoint described in an OpenAPI definition doc. Watch for 0.6.0 in July! @returns documentation, example-driven testing, and hopefully response parsing (with {tibblify}). beekeeper.api2r.org
Rapidly Scaffold API Client Packages
Automatically generate R package skeletons from application programming interfaces (APIs) that follow the OpenAPI Specification (OAS). The skeletons implement best practices to streamline package deve...
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even in 1858 they knew to only use radial bar charts for seasonal comparisons, how did we get that so wrong in the last 150 years
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂May 12, 1820 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy 🇮🇹 Her 1858 radial diagrams used to inform & reform medical practice make her a graphic heroine
if I wrote tanstack it would never have had these problems, how dare they besmirch my name like that
Ottawa native here: this is 1000% in line with my experience. What’s worse is that the overwhelming majority of speed cameras in Ottawa are set up in front of school zones, it’s not even like it’s policing major arteries where traffic is expected to be moving at 80km+ per hour
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz
Five ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier – Nicola Rennie
There are a few small tweaks you can make to your ggplot2 code to improve your charts. However, they’re not often mentioned. So here’s a few functions and arguments I wish I’d known about earlier.
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i had the best time making these silly little pelicans this weekend 🤩 i present: ✨The Pelifont✨
FTN is partnering with the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center to provide advanced charted data to students to help prepare them for a career in sports data and analysis. Special thanks to @stat-ron.bsky.social for being a leader in this partnership.
Me: @niccrane.bsky.social how do I get a dput of an arrow schema pls halp Nic: try schema$code() R6 method? Me: uh what where I’ve never seen that _works exactly as expected_ Me: how tf, that wasn’t in the docs?! _consults google_ wtf, google returns to v12.0 as the first result (not v23) #rstats
I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.
wow when they said python was the second best language at everything they weren’t kidding eh?
Ottawa deploying two ‘Python’ machines to tackle thousands of spring potholes
As spring arrives, after a snowy winter marked by dozens of freeze-thaw cycles, potholes are once again popping-up, by the thousands, across Ottawa roads.
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