Posted by Tinniam V Ganesh

Rank IPL batsmen and bowlers post IPL 2020

Introduction This post ranks IPL batsmen and bowlers post IPL 2020 season based on my R package yorkr. To know more about yorkr see Revisting R package yorkr, Analysis of IPL T20 matches with yorkr templates and others posts on this R package in Index of … Continue reading →

Benford’s law meets IPL, Intl. T20 and ODI cricket

“To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.” “One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would … Continue reading →

Introducing GooglyPlusPlus!!!

“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.” “Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.” “Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself, in a … Continue reading →

Big Data 7: yorkr waltzes with Apache NiFi

In this post, I construct an end-to-end Apache NiFi pipeline with my R package yorkr. This post is a mirror of my earlier post Big Data-5: kNiFing through cricket data with yorkpy based on my Python package yorkpy. The  Apache NiFi Data Pipeilne  flows all the way from the source, where the data … Continue reading →

It’s a wrap! yorkr wraps up BBL, NTB, PSL and WBB!!!

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard “How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.” – Emo Philips Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a … Continue reading →

yorkr rocks women’s One Day International (ODI) and International T20!!

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” Maya Angelou “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin “Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of … Continue reading →

Revitalizing R package yorkr

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. Peter Drucker “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” Corollary: “Expenditure rises to … Continue reading →

Getting started with Tensorflow, Keras in Python and R

The Pale Blue Dot “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, … Continue reading →

Updated:Analyzing performance of cricketers and cricket teams with cricketr templates

Note: I have included the latest set of functions that perform granular analysis of batsmen and bowlers to the cricketr template below! You can download this RMarkdown file from Github at cricketr-template  This post includes a template which you can use for analyzing the performances of … Continue reading →

Cricketr learns new tricks : Performs fine-grained analysis of players

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.” “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” “For a moment, nothing … Continue reading →

Analyzing cricketers’ and cricket team’s performances with cricketr template

This post includes a template which you can use for analyzing the performances of cricketers, both batsmen and bowlers in Test, ODI and Twenty 20 cricket. Additionally this template can also be used for analyzing performances of teams in Test, ODI and T20 matches using my R package cricketr. To see … Continue reading →

Cricketr adds team analytics to its repertoire!!!

And she’s got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need. “I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate … Continue reading →

Big Data-4: Webserver log analysis with RDDs, Pyspark, SparkR and SparklyR

“There’s something so paradoxical about pi. On the one hand, it represents order, as embodied by the shape of a circle, long held to be a symbol of perfection and eternity. On the other hand, pi is unruly, disheveled in appearance, its digits obeying no obvious rule, or at least none that … Continue reading →

My book ‘Cricket analytics with cricketr and cricpy’ is now on Amazon

‘Cricket analytics with cricketr and cricpy – Analytics harmony with R and Python’ is now available on Amazon in both paperback ($21.99) and kindle ($9.99/Rs 449) versions. The book includes analysis of cricketers using both my R package ‘cricketr’ and my python … Continue reading →

Revisiting World Bank data analysis with WDI and gVisMotionChart

Note: I had written a post about 3 years back on World Bank Data Analysis using World Development Indicators (WDI) & gVisMotionCharts. But the motion charts stopped working  some time ago. I have always been wanting to fix this and I now got to actually doing it. The issue was 2 of the WDI … Continue reading →