As you may have heard there’s a global pandemic going on. One of the more minor impacts of that pandemic has been the disruption of athletics, including swimming. In this post we’re going to compare results from the New York State Section V girls championships conducted this in ...

The second ISL season wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, meaning that now we’re in the off-season. I loved watching the CBC’s coverage of the ISL. The races were exciting, the swimmers seemed like they were having a great time, they were absolutely...

If you’re only going to read one line of this post let it be this one: v0.6.0 of SwimmeR is now available from CRAN and it’s better now than ever before. But don’t just stop at one line though, grab that update and come along on this ...

I’ve done an experiment regarding package downloads from CRAN (or the RStudio CRAN mirror at least) and now it’s time to share the results. When the first version (0.0.1.0) of SwimmeR was released on CRAN in October of 2019 it had very few features - just a couple functions for ...

Welcome back to Swimming + Data Science friends. Last week something exciting happened - two things actually! First, the International Swimming League kicked off its 2020 season in Budapest. Second, and directly related, I released version 0.5.0 of SwimmeR to CRAN with functions to read ISL results from the inaugural 2019 season and from ...

Welcome to another case study here at Swimming + Data Science. We’re returning the world of diving, a place we’ve visited before, in an attempt to answer the question “where are all the 10s?” Today’s data science component will consist of matching calculated values to sets of allowed ...

Welcome to the final post in the State-Off Tournament series. This will be a battle royale meet, with each of the 8 State-Off states competing against all the others at once (or in swimming terms, this is an invitational style meet). We’ll also reexamine the seeding assumptions from the beginning ...

This is it folks, the big one, the finals of the State-Off Tournament, where we’ll see California (1) take on Texas (2) for high school swimming superiority. We’ll also use a t-test to determine whether or not swimmers actually swim faster in finals sessions, when the pressure is on. Oh ...

Here we have it, the last meet of the State-Off semi-final round, where California (1) takes on the Cinderella story that is Pennsylvania (5) for a trip to the finals. Don’t forget to update your version of SwimmeR to 0.4.1, because we’ll be using some newly released functions. We’ll also ...

Welcome to round two of the State-Off. Today we have Texas (2) taking on Florida (3) for the right to compete in the State-Off championships! Don’t forget to update your version of SwimmeR to 0.4.1, because we’ll be using some newly released functions. We’ll also take a look at how ...

The first round of the 2020 High School Swimming State-Off Tournament is in the books and saw California (1), Texas (2), Florida, and Pennsylvania (5) advance. Before beginning the next round there are a few administrative details I’d like to cover. First and foremost: SwimmeR version 0.4.1 is now available on CRAN! The State-Off ...

Did you know that Ohio’s state song is Hang On Sloopy, best known as a hit for the McCoys in 1965? Me either, but this week in the State-Off Tournament we’ll see if seventh seed Ohio (7) can cough hang on against second seeded Texas (2). We’ll also continue building ...

This week in the Swimming + Data Science High School Swimming State-Off Tournament we have the 1-8 match-up, my former home of California (1) vs. the Peach Tree State, Georgia (8)! California normally holds its state championships in May, so the 2020 meet was of course canceled for COVID-19. In my capacity as director ...