Publications by Tinniam V Ganesh
Benford’s law meets IPL, Intl. T20 and ODI cricket
“To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.” “One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.” Steven Str...
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Rank IPL batsmen and bowlers post IPL 2020
Introduction This post ranks IPL batsmen and bowlers post IPL 2020 season based on my R package yorkr. To know more about yorkr see Revisting R package yorkr, Analysis of IPL T20 matches with yorkr templates and others posts on this R package in Index of posts library(yorkr) 1. Convert YAML files to match data Convert all the match data as ...
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GooglyPlusPlus 2020!!
I have updated my GooglyPlusPlus Shiny app with data from latest IPL 2020. GooglyPlusPlus 2020 is also based on my R package yorkr. To know more about yorkr (see Revitalizing R package yorkr.) Now you should be able to analyze IPL matches, teams, players upto IPL 2020. Note: My latest GooglyPlusPlus 2020 can analyze all formats of T20 matches...
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GooglyPlusPlus2021 interactively ranks T20 batsmen and bowlers!!!
Every time I think that I have my R packages or Shiny apps all wrapped up, I find another idea trots up and knocks at my door. Since I intend to keep GooglyPlusPlus current with the latest data, I decided to include the ranking functions in my Shiny app GooglyPlusPlus. Fortunately, since GooglyPlusPlus is based on my R package ‘yorkr‘ (see In...
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GooglyPlusPlus2021 bubbles up top T20 players in all formats!
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”“I don’t much care where –”“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland This latest version of GooglyPlusPlus2021 has the followin...
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GooglyPlusPlus2021 with IPL 2021, as-it-happens!
A brand new season of IPL 2021 is on its way, and I intend to keep my Shiny app GooglyPlusPlus updated with all the analysis “as-it-happens”. I had written a post earlier Big Data 7: yorkr waltzes with Apache NiFi, where I used my R package yorkr in a NiFi pipeline to automate downloading, converting and generating appropriate data for Goog...
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GooglyPlusPlus2021 is now fully interactive!!!
GooglyPlusPlus2021 is now fully interactive. Please read the below post carefully to see the different ways you can interact with the data in the plots. There are 2 main updates in this latest version of GooglyPlusPlus2021 a) GooglyPlusPlus gets all ‘touchy, feely‘ with the data and now you can interact with the plot/chart to get more detail...
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GooglyPlusPlus2021 adds new bells and whistles!!
This latest update of GooglyPlusPlus2021 includes new controls which allow for granular analysis of teams and matches. This version includes a new ‘Date Range’ widget which will allow you to choose a specific interval between which you would like to analyze data. The Date Range widget has been added to 2 tabs namely a) Head-to-Head b) Overa...
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GooglyPlusPlus2021: Restarting IPL 2021 as-it-happens!!!
The IPL 2021 extravaganza has restarted again, now in Dubai, and it was time for me to crank up good ol’ GooglyPlusPlus2021. As in my earlier post, GooglyPlus2021 with IPL 2021 as it happens, during the initial set of IPL 2021 games,, a command script will execute automatically every day, download the latest data files, unzip, sort, process and...
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GooglyPlusPlus2021 enhanced with drill-down batsman, bowler analytics
This latest update to GooglyPlusPlus2021 includes the following changes a) All the functions in the ‘Batsman’ and ‘Bowler ‘tabs now include a date range, which allows you specify a period of interest. b) The ‘Rank Batsman’ and ‘Rank Bowler’ tabs also include a date range selector, against the earlier version which had a ‘Since y...
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