Publications by Tinniam V Ganesh
yorkr pads up for the Twenty20s: Part 1- Analyzing team”s match performance
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code. Ken T...
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yorkr pads up for Twenty20s:Part 4- Individual batting and bowling performances!
Introduction In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not. Yogi Berra There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. Alan Perlis Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Alan Perlis Talk is cheap. Show me the cod...
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yorkr crashes the IPL party! – Part 4
Introduction I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. ...
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yorkr ranks IPL batsmen and bowlers
Here is a short post which ranks IPL batsmen and bowlers. These are based on match data from Cricsheet. Ranking batsmen and bowlers in IPL is more challenging as the players can belong to different teams in different years. Hence I create a combined data frame of the batsmen and bowlers regardless of their IPL teams and calculate a) average runs ...
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yorkr ranks T20 batsmen and bowlers
Here is another short post which ranks T20 batsmen and bowlers. These are based on match data from Cricsheet. The ranking is done on average runs and average strike rate for batsmen and average wickets and average economy rate for bowlers. This post has also been published in RPubs RankT20Players. You can download this as a pdf file at RankT20P...
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yorkr ranks ODI batsmen and bowlers
This is the last and final post in which yorkr ranks ODI batsmen and bowlers. These are based on match data from Cricsheet. The ranking is done on average runs and average strike rate for batsmen and average wickets and average economy rate for bowlers. This post has also been published in RPubs RankODIPlayers. You can download this as a pdf fi...
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Beaten by sheer pace – Cricket analytics with yorkr
My ebook “Beaten by sheer pace – Cricket analytics with yorkr’ 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 Leanpub “Beaten by sheer pace!”. The book has been published in the following formats namely PDF (for ...
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Beaten by sheer pace! Cricket analytics with yorkr in paperback and Kindle versions
My book “Beaten by sheer pace! Cricket analytics with yorkr” is now available in paperback and Kindle versions. The paperback is available from Amazon (US, UK and Europe) for $ 54.95. The Kindle version can be downloaded from the Kindle store for $4.99 (Rs 332/-). Do pick up your copy. It should be a good read for a Sunday afternoon. This boo...
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Re-introducing cricketr! : An R package to analyze performances of cricketers
In this post I re-introduce R package cricketr. I have added 8 new functions to my R package cricketr, available from version cricketr_0.0.13 namely batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate bowlerCumulativeAvgWicketRate relativeBatsmanCumulativeAvgRuns relativeBatsmanCumulativeStrikeRate relativeBowler...
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Exploring Quantum Gate operations with QCSimulator
Introduction: Ever since I was initiated into Quantum Computing, through IBM’s Quantum Experience I have been hooked. My initial encounter with domain made me very excited and all wound up. The reason behind this, I think, is because there is an air of mystery around ‘Quantum’ anything. After my early rush with the Quantum Experience, I h...
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