Publications by Martin Monkman
Fair weather fans, redux
Fair weather fans, redux Or, A little larger small sample On August 11 the Victoria HarbourCats closed out their 2013 West Coast League season with a 4-3 win over the Bellingham Bells. In an earlier post, written mid-way through the season after the 'Cats had played 15 home games, I created a scatter plot matrix to look for correlations between ...
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A few random things
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Book Review: Analyzing Baseball Data with R
by Max Marchi and Jim Albert (2014, CRC Press)The Sabermetric bookshelf, #3Here we have the perfect book for anyone who stumbles across this blog–the intersection of R and baseball data. The open source statistical programming environment of R is a great tool for anyone analyzing baseball data, from the robust analytic functions to the great vi...
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Left-handed catchers
Benny Distefano – 1985 Donruss #166 (source: baseball-almanac.com)We are approaching the twenty-fifth anniversary of the last time a left-handed throwing catcher appeared behind the plate in a Major League Baseball game; on August 18, 1989 Benny Distefano made his third and final appearance as a catcher for the Pirates. Distefano’s accompl...
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Run scoring trends: using Shiny to create dynamic charts and tables in R
Or, Retracing my stepsAs I’ve been learning the functionality of Shiny, the web app for R, I have used the helpful tutorials available from the developers at RStudio. At some point, though, one needs to break out and develop one’s own application. My Shiny app “MLB run scoring trends” can be found at (https://monkmanmh.shinyapps.io/MLBr...
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Book review: Storytelling With Data
by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (2015, Wiley)The Sabermetric bookshelf, #4One of the great strengths of R is that there are some robust (and always improving) packages that facilitate great data visualization and tabular summaries. Beyond the capabilities built into the base version of R, packages such as ggplot2 (my favourite), lattice, and vcd and v...
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Adding a subtitle to ggplot2
A couple of days ago (2016-03-12) a short blog post by Bob Rudis appeared on R-bloggers.com, “Subtitles in ggplot2”. I was intrigued by the idea and what this could mean for my own plotting efforts, and it turned out to be very simple to apply. (Note that Bob’s post originally appeared on his own blog, as “Subtitles in ggpl...
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Subtitles and captions with ggplot2 v.2.2.0
Back in March 2016, I wrote about an extension to the R package ggplot2 that allowed subtitles to be added to charts. The process took a bit of fiddling and futzing, but now, with the release of ggplot2 version 2.2.0, it’s easy.Let’s retrace the steps, and create a chart with a subtitle and a caption, the other nifty feature that...
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Updated Shiny app
A short post to alert the world that my modest Shiny application, showing Major League Baseball run scoring trends since 1901, has been updated to include the 2016 season. The application can be found here:https://monkmanmh.shinyapps.io/MLBrunscoring_shiny/.In addition to the underlying data, the update removed some of the processing...
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Smoke from a distant fire
Forest fires and air qualityAugust 31, 2018It was recently announced that during 2018, British Columbia has seen the most extensive forest fire season on record. As I write this (2018-08-31) there are currently 442 wildfires burning in British Columbia. These fires have a significant impact on people’s lives–many areas are under evacuation or...
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