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What Launch Angle Revolution? The Washington Nationals in 2025
What Happened to Traffic Enforcement in Santa Monica?
Lots of Contact, Little Damage: Diagnosing Keibert Ruiz’s 2025 Struggles using Statcast Data
Charting the Start of a New Era in College Sports
Fixing Bad Charts: EV Acceleration as a Function of Battery Charge Level
Shipping a New Tidbyt App: LAX Departures
Charting the Decline in Foreign Air Travel to the US in 2025
The Washington Nationals Crank Up the Power to Start the 2025 Season
Un-breaking my Planes Overhead App for Tidbyt: Using my New Serverless Backend
Building a New REST Backend for My Aircraft Database, Replacing DBHub.io with a DynamoDB, Lambda, and API Gateway Solution
Building a Live Aircraft Tracker with a Raspberry Pi and the PiAware Toolkit
Exploring MLB Payroll Data and Uncovering the Huge Drop in Washington Nationals Spending
What do NFL Players Really Think About Their Teams? Visualizing NFLPA Team Report Cards for the 2024-2025 Season
Visualizing NBA Team Revenue and Valuation Data (2024)
Home Insurance Non-Renewals in Pacific Palisades and Across the US
Visualizing NFL Kicker Accuracy Trends (1999-2024)
Using Ridgeline Plots to Visualize the NFL's Shift Towards Longer Field Goal Attempts
Fantasy Football Wastelands and Goldmines: Looking at Player Start Rates and Point Scoring
Contextualizing Juan Soto's Huge Contract With the New York Mets
Reviewing the Winning ML Models from the Opensky PRC Data Challenge: What Did They Do Differently?
Building a Machine Learning Model to Predict Plane Take Off Weight for the Opensky PRC Data Challenge
How to Quickly Extract and Map Locations from a Bunch of Images Using EXIF Data
Visualizing Home Run Differential by Team in the 2024 MLB Season
The NFL's New Kickoff Rule Looks Set to Boost Offense
Checking in on Triple-A's Robo Umpires
Overturning the Conventional Wisdom about Pitches per Plate Appearance: Long At-Bats Aren't Necessarily Better for Hitters and Worse for Pitchers
Four Ways of Visualizing Foreign and Domestic Passenger Volume at America's Largest Airports
Exploring MLB Statcast's New Bat Tracking Data
Will the Seine be Safe for Olympic Swimmers This Summer? The Parisian Government is Planning on it, Despite Mounting Data to the Contrary
Published! How I Finished Off My 'Planes Overhead' App and Got It Published to the Tidbyt App Store
Dave Martinez and the Washington Nationals are Burning up the Basepaths to Start the 2024 MLB Season
Home Prices Remain High Despite Elevated Mortgage Rates, Creating an Affordability Crisis for Homebuyers
Making Large CSVs Queryable via REST: A Case Study Using DBHub.io to Create a Serverless API for Aircraft Data
What do NFL Players Really Think About Their Teams? Visualizing NFLPA Team Report Cards for the 2023-2024 Season
Examining the More-than-Meets-the-Eye Relationship Between Exit Velocity and WAR for MLB Hitters
Identifying Planes Flying Overhead with Python and the OpenSky REST API
Studying the NBA's Surge in High Scoring Individual Games
How to Make $700M Palatable: Exploring Shohei Ohtani's Uniquely Deferred Megadeal with the Los Angeles Dodgers
Entering the European Space Agency's 'Little Pictures of Climate' Competition (2023)
Fixing Horrendous Charts: Electric Vehicle Preference Trends
How a $25 Gizmo Slashed my Expensive On-Peak Electricity Usage
How the San Diego Padres Became Baseball's Most Disappointing Team (Non-Mets Division)
Quantifying the Impact of Poor Umpiring with @UmpScorecard Data
The New Golden Handcuffs - Residential Mortgages
What Opposite Field? Juan Soto's Spray Charts Show Potential Cause for Early Season Struggles
Major League Baseball Encourages Theft on the Bases with New Rules
The New MLB Pitch Clock is Fixing Baseball's Pace of Play Crisis
Visualizing Water Consumption from the Colorado River Basin
What do NFL Players Really Think About Their Teams? Visualizing NFLPA Team Report Cards for the 2022-2023 Season
Building a Flight Arrivals App for My Tidbyt Smart Display
Visualizing Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Curves
Visualizing a Year of Pihole Requests (2022)
Iteratively Generating Data Visualization Code with ChatGPT
Wait - Tell Me Again How Much the Warriors' Star Studded Roster Is Going to Cost?
Visualizing the Design of the NBA's Luxury Tax System
Analyzing Dealer Markups of Popular New Cars
Which MLB Teams Travel the Most?
What are the Chances Aaron Judge Can Surpass Roger Maris' AL Home Run Record?
How Rising Interest Rates Constrict Home Affordability
How Much Does it Cost to Charge an Electric Vehicle (EV)?
Home Run Differential Through the Opening Months of the 2022 MLB Season
Comparing Positional WAR Projections (2022)
How I Learned to Love Redirects: Lessons from Rolling out CloudFront on top of a Static S3 Site
Visualizing the Impact of Permanent Daylight Savings Time on Winter Sunrise and Sunset Times
How Good is Twitter at Wordle?
What Portland's Shared Mobility Data Tells (And Doesn't Tell) Us About Micromobility Usage in 2019-2021
Visualizing Streaming Music Royalty Rates
Racking up YAC, 2021 Edition
Visualizing the 2020 Spike in Murders Across the US
An Ode to Juan Soto
Who Will Make the Playoffs? Tracking the Decline of the Mets and Padres while the Braves, Reds, and Yankees Make a Run for It
A New Era for Spin Rates?
Race and Gender Disparities in LA County’s COVID Vaccinations
Visualizing MLB Stadium Capacity and Scheduled Opening Day Attendance for the 2021 Season
The NBA's Best Offensive Players by Type of Play
College Football's Oligarchy
Building Better State-Level Election Maps with Cartograms and Tilegrams
Through 28 Games, Charlie Blackmon Is Batting .405. Can He Finish the Season Over .400?
Visualizing the Airline Industry's COVID Contraction
Analyzing the 1033 Program and the Militarization of US Police
How Likely is it that Someone will Hit .400 in a Shortened MLB Season?
COVID-19 Mobility Trends Part 2: Visualizing Google's Data
Digging Deeper Into Apple's COVID-19 Mobility Trends Data
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Seen Through Restaurant Traffic and Social Distancing
Top NBA Duos and Trios
James Harden’s Scoring Brilliance in Context
Breaking Down Fantasy Football Scoring During the 2019-20 Season
Ticket Prices for the Lakers and Clippers at the Staples Center
Checking in on the Start of the 2019-2020 NBA Season
Visualizing the 2019 Cy Young Contenders
Favorability of Democratic Presidential Candidates
Plate Discipline and Offensive Production
Mass Shootings in America
Who are Startup Founders? Profiling Backgrounds and Educations
Understanding NASA's Funding Limitations
State of the Crypto-verse, 2019 Edition
A Semi-Scientific Study of American Cocktail Prices
Revisiting Historical Hitting Trends in Baseball
Which MLB Players Are Most Similar?
Breaking Down the Nationals' Struggles to Begin the 2019 Season
Mapping Chicago Rideshare Data
Analyzing the Mueller Report with Python, R, and NLP APIs
Visualizing Uber's S-1 IPO Filing
NBA Season Retrospective (2018-2019)
H1-B Visa Analysis
Analyzing MLB Team Payrolls (2019)
March Madness 2019 Preview
NL East Season Preview (2019)
LeBron James Career Scoring
Santa Monica Homesharing
Valuing and Visualizing Bryce Harper's Contract Offers
NBA Rim Protection in 2018-2019
Mapping the Big Mac Index
US Airline Flight Maps
One Man Wrecking Crew: Examining James Harden's 2019 Brilliance
Turning your Raspberry Pi into a Cloud-Connected Thermostat
UVA Basketball Season Preview and 2017-2018 Shot Charts
What President Trump's Calendar Reveals About His Presidency
NBA Scoring Leaders and Most/Least Improved Players
NFL Penalty Trends
Cross Country Roadtripping
Visualizing Uber Rides
Tracking the Flow of Bird Scooters Across DC
Creating a Real-Time Politics Dashboard With Shiny Dashboards
McRitchiForthFer Fantasy Football Retrospective
Analyzing President Trump's Approval Rating and the 2018 Generic Ballot
Creating Circumplex (Polar Bar) Charts in R with ggplot2
NFL Spending by Position Group
Projecting the 2026 North American World Cup Host Cities
Home Run Derby Preview 2018 Edition
MLB Batting with RISP (mid-2018)
Best and Worst Passers in the NBA - 2017/2018
DC Government Employee Salary Data
Getting Excited about Juan Soto and Why Not to Worry About Bryce Harper's Batting Average
Cracking Combination Locks With Numpy
NBA Rim Protection in 2017-2018
NBA Usage Rate Leaders
Visualizing MLB Team Payroll Spending
Explore the World's Most Nutritious Foods with Shiny
Hosting your Own RStudio and Shiny Servers in the Cloud
Visualizing Historical NBA All Star Game Scoring with Tableau
The Cavs Blow It Up: 2018 Trade Deadline Edition
NBA Hot Takes: Trades and Injuries Edition
Using the AWS IoT Button and Lambda to Receive On-Demand Daily Briefings
Defense, Rest, and No D-Rose: The Cavs' Remarkable Turnaround
Automating Deployment of your Hugo Site to S3 using AWS CodePipeline
Deploying a Static Website to S3 using Hugo
Analyzing the DC Housing Market - October, 2017
What's Wrong with the Thunder?
Analyzing the DC Housing Market - September, 2017
2017 MLB Awards
Analyzing the DC Housing Market - August, 2017
Analyzing Week 1 Quarterback Performances with R
Power Ranking Amazon HQ2 Destinations
NFL Prop Bets - 2017
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