Technical Articles

Triple Double Russ

sports-analytics
python
In this post, we use webscraping to analyze Russell Westbrook’s (Russ) team performance when he records a triple double. We will use multiple Python modules and focus on Beau…
Mar 6, 2022
1 min

NBA Shot Charts - Part 1

sports-analytics
python
This post is the first in a series that demonstrate how to make shot charts by combining the Python module nba_api with the visualization modules matplotlib and seaborn.
Feb 27, 2022
1 min

Mortality Data and COVID-19 Disinformation - Part 4

tutorial
python

Comparing government mortality data with social media claims to evaluate COVID-19 disinformation.

Jan 17, 2021
9 min

Mortality Data and COVID-19 Disinformation - Part 3

tutorial
python

Creating U.S. mortality rate statistics by combining mortality and Census population data.

Jan 14, 2021
5 min

Mortality Data and COVID-19 Disinformation - Part 2

tutorial
python

Downloading U.S. Census population data to pair with mortality data for creating mortality rates.

Jan 11, 2021
6 min

Mortality Data and COVID-19 Disinformation - Part 1

tutorial
python

Gathering U.S. mortality data to investigate COVID-19 disinformation claims on social media.

Jan 7, 2021
13 min

NBA MVP Comparisons - Part 3

sports-analytics
python
In the last two blog posts we:
1. Gathered the relevant data for all NBA MVPs 2. Evaluated several machine learning models to select the MVP and chose the Latent…
Mar 6, 2019
1 min

NBA MVP Comparisons - Part 2

sports-analytics
python

Using machine learning regression models to identify controversial NBA MVP awards and who was robbed.

Feb 27, 2019
12 min

NBA MVP Comparisons - Part 1

sports-analytics
python
It’s Christmas and that means a full slate of NBA games. This time of year also provokes some great NBA discussions and the best NBA discussions are comparative. Arguments…
Dec 25, 2018
1 min

Milano Location History

how-to
The goal of this post is to visualize time spent in various Milanesi neighborhoods using Google location data and Python * This post utilizes code from Tyler Hartley’s visual…
Mar 6, 2018
1 min

Seattle Location History

how-to
The goal of this post is to visualize time spent in various Seattle neighborhoods using Google location data and Python * This post utilizes code from Tyler Hartley’s visuali…
Aug 21, 2017
1 min

Flights Analysis

how-to
The goal of this post is to visualize flights taken from Google location data using Python * We will create a .gif progressing through individual flights and a .png of all…
Sep 30, 2016
1 min

Positions Matter

sports-analytics
python

The Combine’s Positional Variability in Predicting Career NFL Performance

Aug 1, 2016
2 min

Social Media, Twitter API, and R

tutorial
python

A workshop on gathering, processing, and analyzing Twitter API data with R, created for the 2016 Population Association of America Annual Meeting.

Apr 17, 2016
15 min
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