There’s a new version of SwimmeR available, 0.12.0, which includes capabilities for parsing swimming results from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Naturally I’m going to use it to investigate the theory I have about volleyball. To play along at home you’ll need a version of SwimmeR that’s at least 0.12.0, ...

Omega Timing is the official timekeeper for the Olympic Games, including US Olympic Trails. They don’t do very many other events, which is why SwimmeR hasn’t supported Omega-style results. Until now that is. Omega results can now be read into R with versions of SwimmeR __= 0.10.2, presently available as ...

Final results for the 2021 USMS ePostal National Championships have been posted. We’ll take a look at them using some basic summary stats and charts, then work up the data from inclusion in Shiny application built to present it interactively. If you’d like to just skip to playing with ...

There’s a new version of SwimmeR available, v0.9.0. It follows v0.8.0, which I didn’t like and didn’t write about. I’ve made some improvements though and here we are. Rather than just telling you what’s in v0.9.0 I’m going to indulge myself and approach this ...

Ordinarily posts on Swimming + Data Science have focused on swimming, or sometimes diving. Today though we’re going to visit some of our more gravity-afflicted colleagues and do a bit of cross-training. That’s because following what I’m going to call the SwimmeR package’s massive success literally several ...

SwimmeR version 0.7.2 is now available from CRAN. This new version contains some new features, plus a few changes to make it more user-friendly. Let me show you what I’ve been working on.

library(SwimmeR)
library(dplyr)
library(stringr)
library(flextable)
library(rbenchmark)

flextable_style <- function(x) {
  x %>%
    flextable() %>%
    bold(part = "header") %>% # bold header
    bg(bg = "#D3D3D3", part = "header") %>% # puts gray background behind the header row
    align_nottext_col(align = "center", header = TRUE, footer = TRUE) %>% # center alignment
    autofit()
}

New Features SwimmeR can now parse S.A.M.M.S. style results. S.A.M....

So it begins - the first match-up of the first round of the first ever Swimming + Data Science High School Swimming State-Off. If you missed the introductory post and are wondering what all this is about you can catch up here. Today’s match-up is between number 4 seeded New York ...

The spring and summer of 2020 were going to be exciting times here at Swimming + Data Science, with NCAA championships, Olympic trials, and then the big one, the Olympics, on the docket. That’s all been canceled or postponed though, and with good reason. It has also left me with a ...

In a previous post we discussed the 2020 USMS ePostal results, and hypothesized that declines in average distances swum by older age groups are caused by higher proportions of weaker swimmers participating in older age groups, rather than age based declines. We also mentioned how USMS ePostal results are observational data, ...

Every year US Masters Swimming runs an event called the 1 Hour ePostal. Rules are simple - athletes swim as many lengths of a 25 yard (or longer) swimming pool as possible in one hour, during the month of February, and without the aid of equipment beyond a legal suit and goggles. ...

Brief summary Making a map of New York State by county Labeling areas of the map based on their centroid Answering this question: “Is there a section in New York State from which divers routinely underdive their qualifying scores at the state championships?” Full post I was recently officiating at ...