Developing a Dynamic Ticket Viz
Tableau Public now supports Google Spreadsheets. I didn’t think of this as anything special. But after I realized cloud-based spreadsheets means dashboards that can be automatically update. I set out on a way to constantly update data in Tableau. Given my limited toolset – mainly R, Tableau, and a handful of AWS tools. The Data […]
#TableauTorch Mobile Visualization
Hack your Tickets: Minnesota Twins @ Target Field
Visualize an .png in Tableau
I’ve always thought it was really awesome how some people could replicate images in Tableau. I thought I would give it a shot. I figured it’d take a long time to figure out, but it turns out it’s pretty easy to get key underlying data in R. After doing that you can quickly plot that […]
Who should be the NFL MVP
It’s the end of the National Football League regular season tomorrow. With that, comes talk about who the best player — the MVP — will be. Since 2000, the MVP award has been won by 11 times by quarterbacks and 4 times by running backs. In fact, since the award has been given out only […]
NFL Box Scores
I used to go to an awesome site to get important/cool data for playing fantasy football — Advanced Football Analytics — but it was bought by ESPN and the secret sauce/important information was no longer available to me. I had a few options: 1) cry like a baby; 2) find a different site; 3) find […]
2014 Defenses or now it makes sense why the Packers fell apart in the NFC Championship
After creating charts for the outcomes of offensive possessions by series, I decided to replicate the charts for a team’s defense. Here’s the premise: the success of a team depends on offense, defense, and special teams — wow, no surprise — and sometimes the strength varies by quarter — again, wow and sarcasm. I decided to chart what […]
The 2014 Green Bay Packers Were A First Half Team: Offensive Possessions Results By Quarter
[intro]”the [Green Bay] Packers are a second half team”[/intro] That was the text message I got from a friend at halftime of a recent game between Green Bay and Seattle. I disagreed. I did some web searching, and found the answer at nflsavant.com. The story was clear — Green Bay scored more in the first half. But I […]
MPS Unveils Behavior Dashboard
Just an update on my work: Over the last year, I’ve spent significant time developing a behavior data tool for the principals of Minneapolis Public Schools. We developed the tool because it was one a of a few areas where MPS principals could use feedback from the data (not because we were federally mandated to do it — although […]
ESPN: Green Bay Packers 1-on-1 Blocking Drills
Over the past four years I’ve worked with Rob Demovsky of ESPN analyzing the Green Bay Packers one-on-one offensive/defensive line drill. We’ve found it to be a fantastic predictor of making the team. I’m going to post some more detailed analysis in the future, but in the meantime here is the article: Packers 1-v-1 Blocking Data.