Introduction He will win, who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win, who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. Hence the skilful fighter puts himself in a position ...

“It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say ‘Go away, I ’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.” “But even though Quality cannot be defined, you know what Quality is!” “The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite comfortably in the circuits ...

Introduction “I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.” Robin Williams Get your facts first. Then you can distort them as you please. Mark Twain Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard This is the 3rd post ...

  Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Rabindranath Tagore Introduction In this post, my R package yorkr crashes the IPL party! In my earlier posts I had already created functions ...

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. Albert Einstein *Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.“* Immanuel Kant If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants Isaac Newton Valid criticism does ...

“We need to regard statistical intuition with proper suspicion and replace impression formation by computation wherever possible” “We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world” “The hot hand is entirely in the eyes of the beholders, who are consistently” “too quick to perceive order and causality in randomeness. The ...

Introduction This is the 3rd part of my cricket package yorkr in R. In my 2 earlier posts The making of cricket package yorkr – Part 1. This post analyzed the performance of team in a ODI match. The batting and bowling performances of the team were analyzed. This post also performed analyses ...

Introduction In this post (The making of cricket package yorkr-Part 2),  I continue to add new functionality to my package cricket package yorkr in R. In my earlier post The making of cricket package yorkr-Part 1 I had included functionality that will plot batsman partnerships, bowlers performances with wicket-kind, wicket-runs in specified ...

Introduction Here is a sneak preview of my latest package cricket package yorkr in R. My earlier package ‘cricketr’ (see Introducing cricketr: An R package for analyzing performances of cricketers) was based on data from ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru. My current package ‘yorkr’ is based on data from Cricsheet. The data ...

My book “Cricket analytics with cricketr” is now available in paperback and Kindle versions. The paperback is available from Amazon (US, UK and Europe) for $ 48.99. The Kindle version can be downloaded from the Kindle store for $2.50 (Rs 169/-). Do pick your copy. It should be a good read for a ...

My ebook “Cricket analytics with cricketr’  has been published in Leanpub.  You can now download the book (hot off the press!)  for all formats to your favorite device (mobile, iPad, tablet, Kindle)  from the link  “Cricket analytics with cricketr”. The book has been published in the following formats namely PDF (...

In this post I create a Shiny App, Sixer, based on my R package cricketr. I had developed the R package cricketr, a few months back for analyzing the performances of batsman and bowlers in all formats of the game (Test, ODI and Twenty 20). This package uses the statistics info ...

You can do magic! You can have anything, That you desire Magic… You can do magic – song by America (1982) That is exactly how I feel when I write code in R. A few lines of R, lo behold, hundreds of rows and columns are magically transformed into  easily understandable graphs, ...

Here I go again, raking the muck about crimes against women in India. My earlier post “A crime map of India in R: Crimes against women in India” garnered a lot of responses from readers. In fact one of the readers even volunteered to create the only choropleth map in ...

Here is a scene from  Christopher Nolan’s classic movie Interstellar. In this scene  Cooper, a crew member of the Endurance spaceship which is on its way to 3 distant planets via a wormhole, is conversing with TARS which is one of  US Marine Corps former robots some year in the ...

Introduction This should be last in the series of posts based on my R package cricketr. That is, unless some bright idea comes trotting along and light bulbs go on around my head. In this post cricketr adapts to the Twenty20 International format. Now cricketr can handle stats from all 3 ...

Introduction In this post my package ‘cricketr’ takes a swing at One Day Internationals(ODIs). Like test batsman who adapt to ODIs with some innovative strokes, the cricketr package has some additional functions and some modified functions to handle the high strike and economy rates in ODIs. As before I ...

Introduction In some circles the Ashes is considered the ‘mother of all cricketing battles’. But, being a staunch supporter of all things Indian, cricket or otherwise, I have to say that the Ashes pales in comparison against a India-Pakistan match. After all, what are a few frowns and raised eyebrows ...