Modding Rome Total War (Avatar, The Last Airbender mod) using R!

Posted on March 15, 2023

This blog post will be on a very weird mash-up of a few of my interests, Rome: Total War, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and of course the R programming language! I’ll introduce these drastically different interests first… [Read More]
Tags: avatar, total-war, web-scraping, rvest, tidyverse, r-bloggers

Managing Large R Codebases webinar (summary and slides)

Posted on March 13, 2023

In October last year, I was part of a webinar to talk about “Managing Large Codebases in R” with Alex Bertram of ActivityInfo. It is a bit late to write a blog post about this, I know, but I realized I never created one to spread the word around a... [Read More]
Tags: r-packages, github-actions, tidyverse, r-bloggers

Iran vs. USA Tactical Review!

Posted on December 1, 2022

Introduction The Situation So Far tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) Line-ups 1st Half The GOAL 2nd Half What’s Next? [Read More]
Tags: soccer, football, worldcup

J.League Soccer 2022 Season Review!

Posted on November 15, 2022

Intro League table Team Reviews Cerezo Osaka Shimizu S-Pulse Vissel Kobe Kawasaki Frontale Kashiwa Reysol Kashima Antlers Yokohama F. Marinos Nagoya Grampus Shonan Bellmare FC Tokyo Gamba Osaka Consadole Sapporo Urawa Reds Kyoto Sanga Sagan Tosu Avispa Fukuoka Sanfrecce Hiroshima Jubilo Iwata Data Visualizations Squad Age Profiles Time Interval Scoring... [Read More]
Tags: japan, jleague, soccer, football, ggplot2, tidyverse, r-bloggers

101st TokyoR Meetup Roundup: Palmer penguins, fractal analysis, and more!

Posted on September 20, 2022

Midst a monsoon, another TokyoR meetup! Since the pandemic started all of TokyoR’s meetups have turned into online sessions and the transition has been seamless thanks to the efforts of the TokyoR organizing team. This was the 101st TokyoR Meetup! [Read More]
Tags: japan, japanr, japan.r, community, tokyor, tokyo.r, r-bloggers

J.League Soccer 2022 Mid-Season Review!

Posted on June 15, 2022

Introduction League table Team Reviews Cerezo Osaka Shimizu S-Pulse Vissel Kobe Kawasaki Frontale Kashiwa Reysol Kashima Antlers Yokohama F. Marinos Nagoya Grampus Shonan Bellmare FC Tokyo Gamba Osaka Consadole Sapporo Urawa Reds Kyoto Sanga Sagan Tosu Avispa Fukuoka Sanfrecce Hiroshima Jubilo Iwata Data Visualizations Squad Age Profiles Time Interval Scoring... [Read More]
Tags: japan, jleague, soccer, football, ggplot2, tidyverse, r-bloggers

Developer diary for {ggshakeR} 0.1.2 (a package for soccer analytics viz): Implementing Github Actions CI tools (codecov, lintr, etc.) into the workflow!

Posted on March 23, 2022

{ggshakeR} 0.1.2, a package for soccer analytics visualizations for R, is released! Users will most likely not see anything changed from their perspective as this version was all about implementing Github Actions CI tools and making changes in the back-end of things for the package. For more on the visualizations... [Read More]
Tags: ggplot2, soccer-analytics, soccer, football, github-actions, data-viz, r-bloggers

{tvthemes 1.3.0} is on CRAN: 'Steven Universe'-themed color palettes for ggplot2!

Posted on March 17, 2022

Welcome back to {tvthemes}, an R package for color palettes and ggplot2 themes from your favorite TV shows! The 1.3.0 release is now on CRAN. It’s been a very long time since the last update to {tvthemes}. Even version 1.2.0 was just updates on the back-end of things to implement... [Read More]
Tags: ggplot2, color-palettes, ggplot2-themes, TV-shows, data-viz, r-bloggers

Creating a data pipeline with Github Actions & the {googledrive} package for the Canadian Premier League soccer data initiative!

Posted on September 23, 2021

In analytics for any particular field, it’s not enough to be able to create output (fancy charts, dashboards, reports, etc.) but also be able to collect the data you want to use in a easy, reproducible, and most importantly, consistent way. This is all the more important in a field... [Read More]
Tags: canada-premier-league, soccer, football, github-actions, googledrive, r-bloggers

J.League Soccer 2020 Season Review with R!

Posted on January 14, 2021

2020 brought another exciting, if temporarily suspended, season of Japanese soccer with the 28th season of the J.League managing to complete all of its games amidst the backdrop of COVID-19. Kawasaki Frontale went on a barn storming run to win the title with 4 games left and accumulating 83 points... [Read More]
Tags: japan, jleague, soccer, football, ggplot2, tidyverse, r-bloggers

87th TokyoR Meetup Roundup: {data.table}, Bioconductor, & more!

Posted on August 3, 2020

As the monsoon season (finally) ends, another TokyoR meetup! Since COVID hit all of TokyoR’s meetups since February have been done online and the transition has been seamless thanks to the efforts of the TokyoR organizing team. It was my first TokyoR since January so it was great to be... [Read More]
Tags: japan, japanr, japan.r, community, tokyor, tokyo.r, r-bloggers

Intro to {polite} Web Scraping of Soccer Data with R!

Posted on May 14, 2020

Fans of soccer/football have been left bereft of their prime form of entertainment these past few months and I’ve seen a huge uptick in the amount of casual fans and bloggers turning to learning programming languages such as R or Python to augment their analytical toolkits. Free and easily accessible... [Read More]
Tags: web-scraping, soccer, football, scraping, rvest, tidyverse, r-bloggers

My RStudio::Conf 2020 / TidyDevDay Roundup & Reflections!

Posted on February 12, 2020

RStudio::Conference 2020 was held in San Francisco, California and kick started a new decade for the R community with a bang! Following some great workshops on a wide variety of topics such as JavaScript for Shiny Users to Designing the Data Science Classroom there were two days full of great... [Read More]
Tags: rstudioconf, tidydevday, open-source, tidyverse, r-community, r-bloggers

Visualizing the Premier League So Far, Part 1: Overview with xPts Tables and xG Plots

Posted on November 21, 2019

It’s the November International Break and we’re around a third of the season through in the Premier League. To break the monotony I decided to do a blog post exploring how teams are doing so far according to a variety of metrics such as shots, goals, xG, xPts, etc. both... [Read More]
Tags: ggplot2, soccer, football, data-viz, football-analytics, soccer-analytics, r-bloggers

81st TokyoR Meetup Roundup: A Special Session in {Shiny}!

Posted on October 30, 2019

As another sweltering summer ends, another TokyoR Meetup! With global warming in full swing and it still being around 30 degrees at the end of September, this month’s meetup was held at DIP Corporation, an personnel/recruitment services company, in their headquarters in Roppongi, Tokyo. This month’s session was another special-themed... [Read More]
Tags: japan, japanr, japan.r, community, tokyor, tokyo.r, r-bloggers

My useR! 2019 Highlights & Experience: Shiny, R Community, {packages}, and more!

Posted on July 21, 2019

The useR! Conference was held in Toulouse, France and for me this was my second useR! after my first in Brisbane last year. This time around I wanted to write about my experiences and some highlights similar to my post on the RStudio::Conference 2019 & Tidyverse Dev Day earlier this... [Read More]
Tags: tidyverse, user2019, useR2019, shiny, shinymeta, data.table, rstats, r-bloggers

Visualizing the Copa América: Historical Records, Squad Profiles, and Player Profiles with xG statistics!

Posted on June 18, 2019

Another summer and another edition of the Copa América! Along with the Africa Cup of Nations, Nations League finals, the Women’s World Cup, Under-21 European Championship AND the Gold Cup this is yet another soccer-filled season after last year’s World Cup and the Asian Cup earlier this year (I also... [Read More]
Tags: brazil, messi, ggplot2, web-scraping, copa-america-2019, soccer, futbol, rvest, tidyverse, r-bloggers

78th #TokyoR Meetup Roundup!

Posted on May 31, 2019

With the arrival of summer, another TokyoR User Meetup! On May 25th, useRs from all over Tokyo (and some even from further afield - including Kan Nishida of Exploratory, all the way from California!) flocked to Jimbocho, Tokyo for another jam-packed session of R hosted by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group.... [Read More]
Tags: japan, japanr, japan.r, community, tokyor, tokyo.r, r-bloggers

My #TidyverseDevDay and #RStudioConf 2019 Reflections!

Posted on January 25, 2019

This was my second RStudio Conference following last year’s edition in San Diego! In addition, at Tidyverse Developer Day I got a really cool chance to work on issues and contribute to making the Tidyverse better. This post won’t be a complete overview of the talks at the conference (others... [Read More]
Tags: rstudioconf, community, tidyversedevday, open-source, tidyverse, r-bloggers

Visualizing the Asian Cup with R!

Posted on January 11, 2019

Another year, another big soccer/football tournament! This time it’s the top international competition in Asia, the Asian Cup hosted in the U.A.E. In this blog post I’ll be covering (responsible) web-scraping, data wrangling (tidyverse FTW!), and of course, data visualization with ggplot2. All of the code and data below is... [Read More]
Tags: japan, ggplot2, web-scraping, asian-cup-2019, soccer, rvest, tidyverse, r-bloggers

Visualizing the Weather in Japan: A Sweltering Summer Story!

Posted on October 4, 2018

I’ve lived in a couple of countries where talking (or more typically whinging) about the weather is a national past time so I took things one step further, by making a blog post about it! [Read More]
Tags: weather, gganimate, japan, ggplot2, riem, maps, r-spatial, climate, JMA, r-bloggers

Exploring Japan's Postwar Economic Miracle with gganimate, tweenr, & highcharter!

Posted on January 12, 2018

In this blog post I weave in gganimate, tweenr, and highcharter plots while exploring the American policies that aided Japan’s postwar economic miracle! Back in college, I wrote a paper on this subject for my United States Economic History class. We were supposed to include a few tables and graphs... [Read More]
Tags: japan, ggplot2, gganimate, tweenr, highcharter, economics, r-bloggers

Where to live in Japan: XKCD-themed climate plots and maps!

Posted on November 22, 2017

In the past week or so, XKCD graphs of “The most comfortable place to live in ___” have been popping up on the #rstats community on Twitter. Jumping onto this trend (though slightly late), I will do one for Japan, the country where I was born! Some great examples that... [Read More]
Tags: xkcd, riem, weather, climate, maps, japan, ggplot2, r-bloggers

Thrice: Breaking Down The Lyrics Word-by-Word!

Posted on October 10, 2017

In Part 2 we will look at the lyrical content of the band, Thrice. By dividing the lyrics of each song into a single-word-per-row format, we can take a much closer look at the the lyrical content at various levels! [Read More]
Tags: thrice, music, lyrics, text-analysis, tidytext, r-bloggers