Publications by Tinniam V Ganesh
Natural language processing: What would Shakespeare say?
Here is a scene from Christopher Nolan’s classic movie Interstellar. In this scene Cooper, a crew member of the Endurance spaceship which is on its way to 3 distant planets via a wormhole, is conversing with TARS which is one of US Marine Corps former robots some year in the future. TARS (flippantly): “Everybody good? Plenty of slaves f...
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Revisiting crimes against women in India
Here I go again, raking the muck about crimes against women in India. My earlier post “A crime map of India in R: Crimes against women in India” garnered a lot of responses from readers. In fact one of the readers even volunteered to create the only choropleth map in that post. The data for this post is taken from http://data.gov.in. You can ...
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Literacy in India – A deepR dive
You can do magic! You can have anything, That you desire Magic… You can do magic – song by America (1982) That is exactly how I feel when I write code in R. A few lines of R, lo behold, hundreds of rows and columns are magically transformed into easily understandable graphs, regression curves or choropleth maps. (By the way, the song is ...
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Sixer – R package cricketr’s new Shiny avatar
In this post I create a Shiny App, Sixer, based on my R package cricketr. I had developed the R package cricketr, a few months back for analyzing the performances of batsman and bowlers in all formats of the game (Test, ODI and Twenty 20). This package uses the statistics info available in ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru. I had written a series of posts ...
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A short video tutorial on my R package cricketr
Take a look at my short video presentation my R package cricketr Also see 1. Sixer – R package cricketr’s new Shiny Avatar 2. Literacy in India : A deepR dive. 3. Natural Language Processing: What would Shakespeare say? 4. Revisiting crimes against women in India 5. Dabbling with Weiner filter with OpenCV 6. A method to crowd source pot...
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A video tutorial on R programming – The essentials
Here is a my video tutorial on R programming – The essentials. This tutorial is meant for those who would like to learn R, for R beginners or for those who would like to get a quick start on R. This tutorial tries to focus on those main functions that any R programmer is likely to use often rather than trying to cover every aspect of R wi...
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Cricket analytics with cricketr!!!
My ebook “Cricket analytics with cricketr’ has been published in Leanpub. You can now download the book (hot off the press!) for all formats to your favorite device (mobile, iPad, tablet, Kindle) from the link “Cricket analytics with cricketr”. The book has been published in the following formats namely PDF (for your computer) ...
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Cricket analytics with cricketr in paperback and Kindle versions
My book “Cricket analytics with cricketr” is now available in paperback and Kindle versions. The paperback is available from Amazon (US, UK and Europe) for $ 48.99. The Kindle version can be downloaded from the Kindle store for $2.50 (Rs 169/-). Do pick your copy. It should be a good read for a Sunday afternoon. This book of mine contains my ...
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The making of cricket package yorkr – Part 1
Introduction Here is a sneak preview of my latest package cricket package yorkr in R. My earlier package ‘cricketr’ (see Introducing cricketr: An R package for analyzing performances of cricketers) was based on data from ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru. My current package ‘yorkr’ is based on data from Cricsheet. The data for Test, ODI, Twenty20 m...
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The making of cricket package yorkr – Part 2
Introduction In this post (The making of cricket package yorkr-Part 2), I continue to add new functionality to my package cricket package yorkr in R. In my earlier post The making of cricket package yorkr-Part 1 I had included functionality that will plot batsman partnerships, bowlers performances with wicket-kind, wicket-runs in specified ODI ...
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