Buckets & Bytes
Andrew WeathermanIn-depth visualization and scraping tutorials using sports data and R, with an emphasis on men's college basketball
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Premier League Table Bump Charts
This plot attempts to visualize the “standings flow” in the English Premier League during the 2023-24 campaign, with a focus on champions Manchester City and runners-up Arsenal.
It is not yet accompanied by a tutorial.
Source Co...
NBA Points by Blue Bloods
In early February 2024, Todd Whitehead tweeted a visualization that illustrated points scored in the NBA by former Duke and North Carolina players.
This code works to recreate that visualization using ggplot2 and data from Sports Reference...
Lots of columns? Use this gt trick!
The What
Dealing with multiple tables in gt is a pain, whether it be with gt_two_column_layout or some messy htmltools hacking. A clever way to address this is to transform your data into a wide format before you pass it to gt. This...
Best Road Performance
A gt table that calculates the 10 best T-Rank efficiency ratings in true D-1 vs. D-1 road performances – also includes a composite season-long predictive average across all games and quadrant records in true road games.
This visualization...
Team Schedule Matrices
In late April, @cobrastats posted a great graphic on the 2024 Big Ten football schedule. He open-sourced his code on GitHub, and with his permission, I created a pull request to show my attempt at creating the same graphic. You can find tha...
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R enthusiast and college basketball fanatic | Duke University graduate
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