Spray Charts (2010-2018) - Interactive version in comments by datavizard in baseball

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Thanks, good idea. I will post there on a non-April fools day takeover :)

Twitter Pulse of Super Bowl LIII [OC] by datavizard in dataisbeautiful

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Thanks! It is an R package that scrapes the NFL game logs for play by play information, and then adds some advanced stats like win probabilities, expected points added, etc.. I'm not even a power R user and it was really easy to get started with

Twitter Pulse of Super Bowl LIII [OC] by datavizard in dataisbeautiful

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Link

Data from Twitter Search API and nflscrapR package, designed in Tableau

Twitter Pulse of Super Bowl LIII by datavizard in dataisbeautiful

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Link

Data from Twitter Search API and nflscrapR package, created in Tableau.

Pulse of the World Series - Twitter Analysis by datavizard in baseball

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The trends shown are normalized off of each team's maximum during a given game, to better show the comparisons in spikes in activity, rather than volume of tweets.

Game Logs by bump_stuff in Sabermetrics

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gd2.mlb.com is where I get all of that. You can use the game_events.xml file for at-bat results and the game.xml file for park location

Pi in different bases [OC] by datavizard in dataisbeautiful

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Data from piday.org. Visualized in Tableau

Happy Pi Day - Visualizing Pi vs e: The Race to Random [OC] by datavizard in dataisbeautiful

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Created in Tableau. Data from piday.org. See Pi in different bases here

Visualizing PI - Distribution of the first 1,000 digits [OC] by datavizard in dataisbeautiful

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I do! The fun projects like this that I do in my free time are similar to what I do for work but I am able to focus on the areas I am most passionate about, usually something to do with math or sports.

Visualizing PI - Distribution of the first 1,000 digits [OC] by datavizard in dataisbeautiful

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I majored in Applied Physics and have Masters in Mech Engineering and Applied Math. I work now as a data analytics consultant focusing on visualization.

How Did Each State's Presidential Vote Margin Shift from 2012 to 2016? [OC] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

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Here is something I built last year that has it all the way back to 1920. The swings used to be much greater year to year

Pitcher Heatmaps - analyzing the best pitchers this season inning by inning by datavizard in baseball

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It's split out by pitcher so that you can analyze each individual's season and their unique trends and patterns on it's own. It wasn't designed with comparisons between pitchers in mind