This blog post will be on a very weird mash-up of a few of my interests, Rome: Total War, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and of course the R programming language! I’ll introduce these drastically different interests first… “and n... [Read more...]

In October last year, I was part of a webinar to talk about “Managing Large Codebases in R” with Alex Bertram of ActivityInfo. It is a bit late to write a blog post about this, I know, but I realized I never created one to spread ... [Read more...]

Intro League table Team Reviews Cerezo Osaka Shimizu S-Pulse Vissel Kobe Kawasaki Frontale Kashiwa Reysol Kashima Antlers Yokohama F. Marinos Nagoya Grampus Shonan Bellmare FC Tokyo Gamba Osaka Consadole Sapporo Urawa Reds Kyoto Sanga Sagan Tosu Avispa Fukuoka Sanfrecce Hiroshima Jubilo Iwata Data Visualizations Squad Age Profiles Time Interval Scoring ... [Read more...]

Midst a monsoon, another TokyoR meetup! Since the pandemic started all of TokyoR’s meetups have turned into online sessions and the transition has been seamless thanks to the efforts of the TokyoR organizing team. This was the 101... [Read more...]

{ggshakeR} 0.2.0, a package for soccer analytics visualizations for R is released! This version brings a huge amount of new functionality as well as changes to existing functions. devtools::install_github("abhiamishra/ggshakeR") ... [Read more...]

Introduction League table Team Reviews Cerezo Osaka Shimizu S-Pulse Vissel Kobe Kawasaki Frontale Kashiwa Reysol Kashima Antlers Yokohama F. Marinos Nagoya Grampus Shonan Bellmare FC Tokyo Gamba Osaka Consadole Sapporo Urawa Reds Kyoto Sanga Sagan Tosu Avispa Fukuoka Sanfrecce Hiroshima Jubilo Iwata Data Visualizations Squad Age Profiles Time Interval Scoring ... [Read more...]

{ggshakeR} 0.1.2, a package for soccer analytics visualizations for R, is released! Users will most likely not see anything changed from their perspective as this version was all about implementing Github Actions CI tools and maki... [Read more...]

Welcome back to {tvthemes}, an R package for color palettes and ggplot2 themes from your favorite TV shows! The 1.3.0 release is now on CRAN. It’s been a very long time since the last update to {tvthemes}. Even version 1.2.0 was j... [Read more...]

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...]