I was browsing the Social Security Administration’s website and found a link for the open government initiative (http://www.ssa.gov/open/data/).  There seems to be a fair amount of interesting data here, but I grabbed the names of people born in the US … Continue reading → [Read more...]

R continues to rise in popularity.  Check out this article at RedMonk [Read more...]

For those of you who are just joining us, please refer back to the previous two posts referencing scraping XML data and length of NBA career by position. The next idea I wanted to explore was whether BMI had any … Continue reading → [Read more...]

In the previous post, I showed how easy it is to use R to scrape XML tables from websites (I used the XML package to scrape some basic basketball data).  In this post, I’ll explore the idea that NBA career … Continue reading → [Read more...]

A couple of my good friends also recently started a sports analytics blog. We’ve decided to collaborate on a couple of studies revolving around NBA data found at www.basketball-reference.com. This will be the first part of that project! Data scientists need data. … Continue reading → [Read more...]

US Census 2011 (ACS) – choroplethr As a statistician, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the US Census. I love the rich data sets that are made publicly available and I’ve often experimented with visualizing the results. … Continue reading → [Read more...]