Publications by R by R(yo)
81st TokyoR Meetup Roundup: A Special Session in {Shiny}!
As another sweltering summer ends, another TokyoR Meetup! With global warming in full swing and it still being around 30 degrees at the end of September, this month’s meetup was held at DIP Corporation, an personnel/recruitment services company, in their headquarters in Roppongi, Tokyo. This month’s session was another special-themed session ...
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{tvthemes 1.1.0} is on CRAN: Creating a {pkgdown} website, Gravity Falls palette, and more!
The newest version of {tvthemes} is now on CRAN! v1.1.0 features one new palette (Gravity Falls), vignettes, renamed functions, and a nice pkgdown website. install.packages("tvthemes") # v1.1.0 library(tvthemes) Gravity Falls Let’s start off with the main item of interest, the “Gravity Falls” palette. I’ve been meaning to watch Gravity ...
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Visualizing the Premier League So Far, Part 1: Overview with xPts Tables and xG Plots
It’s the November International Break and we’re around a third of the season through in the Premier League. To break the monotony I decided to do a blog post exploring how teams are doing so far according to a variety of metrics such as shots, goals, xG, xPts, etc. both for and against. For this post specifically I talk about some overall gra...
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Visualizing the Premier League So Far, Part 2: Stats from Open Play and Set Pieces
In Part 2, I will be looking into various statistics from different game situations in the English Premier League, specifically from open play, set pieces, and corner kicks. As with stats taken from “special” situations, do keep in mind that some teams may not have taken many shots from these situations. When talking about the numbers below I...
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My RStudio::Conf 2020 / TidyDevDay Roundup & Reflections!
RStudio::Conference 2020 was held in San Francisco, California and kick started a new decade for the R community with a bang! Following some great workshops on a wide variety of topics such as JavaScript for Shiny Users to Designing the Data Science Classroom there were two days full of great talks as well as the Tidyverse Dev Day the day after t...
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Intro to {polite} Web Scraping of Soccer Data with R!
Fans of soccer/football have been left bereft of their prime form of entertainment these past few months and I’ve seen a huge uptick in the amount of casual fans and bloggers turning to learning programming languages such as R or Python to augment their analytical toolkits. Free and easily accessible data can be hard to find if you only just st...
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87th TokyoR Meetup Roundup: {data.table}, Bioconductor, & more!
As the monsoon season (finally) ends, another TokyoR meetup! Since COVID hit all of TokyoR’s meetups since February have been done online and the transition has been seamless thanks to the efforts of the TokyoR organizing team. It was my first TokyoR since January so it was great to be back! In line with my previous round up posts: TokyoR #76...
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My R Table Competition 2020 Submission: xG Timeline Table for Soccer/Football with {gt}!
Introduction In this blog post I’ll be talking about my submission to the 2020 RStudio Table contest: A xG and shots timeline table for soccer/football matches powered by data from understat.com! I started out in soccer analytics mainly to practice my data cleaning and visualization skills and over time it evolved into an entire portfolio of p...
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J.League Soccer 2020 Season Review with R!
2020 brought another exciting, if temporarily suspended, season of Japanese soccer with the 28th season of the J.League managing to complete all of its games amidst the backdrop of COVID-19. Kawasaki Frontale went on a barn storming run to win the title with 4 games left and accumulating 83 points (both J.League records) as many of the previous y...
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Introducing {centralperk}: Get quotes from the main characters of the TV show ‘Friends’
My latest package is a R client for Melanie Seltzer’s “friends-quotes-api”, called {centralperk}! This was mainly a way for me to continue learning about APIs, specifically using APIs with R. I’ve been doing some work with an API powered by {plumber} for data collection at work and wanted to explore more. {centralperk} is massively influe...
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