Came across the Gun Violence Archives and had to quickly throw the data at Tableau. This is just the mass shootings (defined as 4 or more victims), I don't have the full data set of all gun incidents in 2016. … [Read more...]
Learning D3js visualization
I've been threatening to figure out D3.js visualizations for a while now, and I finally got around to digging in. While there are a couple decent step-by-step tutorials available online, and the documentation at D3 itself is good, there is no good quick-start guide, so the first … [Read more...]
Beer? Numbers? Two of my favorite things!
While between projects at work, or when a project is at a pause, I'm keeping myself busy in Tableau, trying ideas and sharpening by data blending and calculation building skills. When you're just playing around you need a dataset, of course. I decided to switch things up and move … [Read more...]
The inevitable follow-up: all-time pitching data
Of course I had to put this together after yesterday's post. Saves account for the only perfect 80/20 distribution, but in general, historical pitching counting-stat data breaks down into quintiles conform to Pareto's ideas fairly neatly.* Again, it's all … [Read more...]
A quick look at baseball stats and the Pareto Principle
While doing some BI work for a local client, I whipped up a Pareto chart of her YTD billings by client to show her how top-heavy she is, relying on too few clients for too high a percentage of her sales. Pretty standard thing to do with any data set to get a sense of what you're … [Read more...]