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Conor McLaughlin

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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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