Recently a colleague asked if I could use R/statistics to form a dream soccer team from a pool of soccer players, given basic player information like name, club, cost, points.The idea is to form a team with your preferred configuration of number of def...

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@zxaar's comments in a Cricinfo article prompted this post. He commented that - "He (Miandad) was not great outside of pakistan where he was helped by home umpires. Not a true great. Miadad's case states lie due to favour from umpires."I'm an Indian...

We love cricket all rounders (players who can both bat and bowl). These players are great assets for their teams and captains love 'em. So, who are the best all rounders in World Cup Cricket history?Kapil, Steve Waugh and Jayasuriya have all performed ...

We've witnessed many great bowlers in World Cup Cricket - Shane Warne and Murlidharan, the spin wizards, and Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, the toe-breakers. However, the data indicates that the marathon man, the-run-up-and-bowl-accurately guy, Glen McG...

There have been many debates on identifying the best batsman in World Cup Cricket. Here's one way to determine it. The data shows Sachin Tendulkar as the best ever based on total runs scored (large bubble size), strike rate and runs/game. Bow to the ma...

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Note: Excludes abandoned, canceled and no results games.

Cricket World Cup 2011: Fourteen countries will compete for Cricket championship in Cricket World Cup 2011 from Feb 19, 2011 to Apr 2, 2011 in the Indian sub-continent. India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will host 49 matches. Pakistan was removed from t...

Cricket World Cup 2011 is approaching and I'm interested in analyzing one day international cricket data to predict some results and share interesting information about cricket.  For the analysis, I need cricket data and tried several things to ge...

Here's a quick R plot of population in Indian states and the breakdown by the religion people practice. The data was obtained from this Indian government site. I'm looking for other state-level data to overlay on this to find interesting patterns e.g....

Couple of weeks ago, I was looking for interesting data sets to play with using R. I came across this post and got inspired to use World Bank data to extract interesting patterns/facts about developing countries. World Bank has 300+ World Development i...

I want to share my experience in generating the data for social network analysis using R and analyzing it using Gephi... WHICH DATA STRUCTURE TO USE FOR LARGE GRAPHS?I quickly realized that using edge lists and adjacency matrix gets difficult as the g...