I recently came across a cool waffle viz for the top 20 shot-creating action players in the big 5 European soccer leagues done by Harsh Krishna on Twitter, see original Tweet here. He also posted the code in this Github gist with ... [Read more...]

Introduction The 29th season of the J.League was won, yet again, by Kawasaki Frontale who have now won 4 times out of the past 5 seasons. They still have some way to go to overcome Kashima Antler’s record of 8 league titles but t... [Read more...]

In analytics for any particular field, it’s not enough to be able to create output (fancy charts, dashboards, reports, etc.) but also be able to collect the data you want to use in a easy, reproducible, and most importantly, consi... [Read more...]

Introduction The 29th season of the J.League is slightly different compared to a normal season as for the first time there are 20 teams fighting for the league title and 4 teams facing relegation into J2 as no teams were relegate... [Read more...]

My latest package is a R client for Melanie Seltzer’s “friends-quotes-api”, called {centralperk}! This was mainly a way for me to continue learning about APIs, specifically using APIs with R. I’ve been doing some work with an API ... [Read more...]

2020 brought another exciting, if temporarily suspended, season of Japanese soccer with the 28th season of the J.League managing to complete all of its games amidst the backdrop of COVID-19. Kawasaki Frontale went on a barn stormi... [Read more...]

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Fans of soccer/football have been left bereft of their prime form of entertainment these past few months and I’ve seen a huge uptick in the amount of casual fans and bloggers turning to learning programming languages such as R o... [Read more...]

RStudio::Conference 2020 was held in San Francisco, California and kick started a new decade for the R community with a bang! Following some great workshops on a wide variety of topics such as JavaScript for Shiny Users to Designi... [Read more...]

In Part 2, I will be looking into various statistics from different game situations in the English Premier League, specifically from open play, set pieces, and corner kicks. As with stats taken from “special” situations, do ke... [Read more...]

It’s the November International Break and we’re around a third of the season through in the Premier League. To break the monotony I decided to do a blog post exploring how teams are doing so far according to a variety of metri... [Read more...]

The newest version of {tvthemes} is now on CRAN! v1.1.0 features one new palette (Gravity Falls), vignettes, renamed functions, and a nice pkgdown website. install.packages("tvthemes") # v1.1.0 library(tvthemes) Gravity Falls ... [Read more...]

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The useR! Conference was held in Toulouse, France and for me this was my second useR! after my first in Brisbane last year. This time around I wanted to write about my experiences and some highlights similar to my post on the RStu... [Read more...]

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Another summer and another edition of the Copa América! Along with the Africa Cup of Nations, Nations League finals, the Women’s World Cup, Under-21 European Championship AND the Gold Cup this is yet another soccer-filled seaso... [Read more...]