Publications by Swimming + Data Science
Diving Scores in New York State High School Athletics
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 a New York State High School Championship m...
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Analyzing the US Masters 2020 1-Hour ePostal Results
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 Feburary, and without the aid of equipment beyond a legal suit and googles. Total distances can then be submitted electronically (hence the �...
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The USMS ePostal Over the Last 20+ Years
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, and so we can’t draw...
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Announcing the Swimming + Data Science High School States Swimming State-Off!
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 few holes in my schedule, so, without those meets I’ve decided ...
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High School Swimming Tournament: New York (4) vs. Pennsylvania (5)
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 and number 5 seeded Pennsylvania. Setup To begin let’s load s...
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High School Swimming State-Off Tournament California (1) vs. Georgia (8)
library(SwimmeR) library(dplyr) library(stringr) library(purrr) library(gt) 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 c...
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High School Swimming State-Off Tournament Florida (3) vs. Illinois (6)
This week in the High School Swimming State-Off Tournament we have the third seeded Sunshine State, Florida (3) taking on the sixth seeded Illinois (6) aka the Prairie State. library(SwimmeR) library(dplyr) library(stringr) library(purrr) library(flextable) Florida Results Florida has a nice results repository, with Hy-Tek real-time results. Thi...
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High School Swimming State-Off Tournament Texas (2) vs. Ohio (7)
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 our meet scoring function, with en eye towards including it in a future Swi...
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New Version of SwimmeR and the Next Round of the State-Off Tournament
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 has been the ...
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High School Swimming State-Off Tournament Texas (2) vs. Florida (3)
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 to plot swimming times while maintaining their format. libr...
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