It’s been a while since my last post, so I wanted to dig into my old work-in-progress folder to find something to rework and put up here. So here it is, a fairly handy way to analyse the lyrics of your favourite artists using R and the genius API. ...

After seeing this blog post from Matt Dray, and this github repo from Devin Pleurer, I knew what my next blog post was going to be. My last post was my first foray into gganimate, and this will be my first look at the ggsoccer package. Let’s get started. ...

I’m one of the few people that actually still has – and uses – a Last.fm account. I say still, I’m one of the few who ever had one. I’ve been playing around with some APIs for the first time lately and thought I’d check out the ...

I can’t quite remember when I came up with the idea for this one, but I have a feeling this was a 3AM idea. I know the title doesn’t tell you much. I’m not talking about a Kramer Vs. Kramer reboot. Stone Cold Steve Austin isn’t ...

In this blog post I will be adapting some code from the wonderful FC R Stats, a great football statistics resource – be sure to check out their tutorial for more detail on how to compose something like this. This post focuses a lot on writing functions in R, so check ...