NHL 2024 Cumulative Goal Differential Plot
The NHL season is on its mid-season break for the All Star game and I wanted to take a look at how teams have performed so far. My goal was to learn somethi...
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2024
2022
MLS 2022 xG Comet plot
The MLS 2022 is nearing its end. There are some clear front runners going into the playoffs, but I’ve started to wonder how teams offensive and defensive te...
UCL 2022 Group Strength
The UEFA Champions League group draw is complete! I’m very excited for this new season to start and for Real Madrid to defend their title. Every season I k...
Hany Mukhtar’s 2022 Shots on Target
Hany Mukhtar is well on his way to an MLS MVP candidacy this season, so I wanted to take a look at Hany’s goal finishing ability. I’ve recently gotten a lot...
Plot Remix: Minutes Breakdown
This has been a breakout season for Vinicius Junior. He made first appearances for Real Madrid’s first team during the 2018/19 season. Vini impressed early...
Levante’s Winless Streak
While living in Valencia I fell in love with their local footbal clubs. At the time Levante were playing in Spain’s second division, going on to eventually ...
2021
Using a ggplot subtitle as a color legend
Using Joey Chestnut’s reign as Nathan’s hot dog eating contest as an example for adding color to a ggplot title or subtitle.
Webscrape Disc Golf Stats
In an effort to compare professional disc golfer earnings, I web scrape the PDGA website to access player prize money.
2020
RStudio Code Snippets: for the basic stuff
I first learned about code snippets in RStudio from Sean Lopp’s talk about RStudio Tips and Tricks at the 2017 New York R Conference. Ever since seeing the ...
Friends Episode Ratings
This week’s Tidy Tuesday dataset presents the IMDb episode ratings for the hit sitcom, Friends. I decided to create a rank-lollipop chart to visualize how ep...
SQLite DB in R
A simple tutorial to creating a SQLite database in R.
beepr, pacman, tictoc: My favorite lesser known R packages
A few week’s ago, RWeekly featured Erin Grand’s post: Twitter’s Favorite Lesser Known Packages. There was a plethora of responses where R-users shared packa...
2020 La Liga Table
Yesterday was the final matchday of the 2019/20 La Liga season. Real Madrid claimed their 34th La Liga title, Atleti qualify for the UCL for the 8th consecut...
2019
Plotting Manager Elo Ratings by Club Part 1
Prior to managing Manchester United, José Mourinho had won the league in the second season with every club prior. The 2016-17 season saw Mourinho’s United fi...