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Telling Stories with Data

Data Science Toolkit: Web Scraping with R

Web Scraping is a must-have tool for every data scientist. In this post, we walk through the basics to get you up and running with web scraping in R.

Advanced Data Visualization with R and ggplot2: Recreating the New York Times COVID Tracker

The New York Times often produces excellent data visualizations. In the post we explore how to recreate their COVID tracker with R and ggplot2.

Intro to Statcast Pitching Data

Short tutorial introducing the different dimensions of Statcast pitching data