Author: Tinniam V Ganesh

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. The Pale Blue Dot “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. The cricketr package has several functions that perform several different analyses on both batsman and bowlers. The package can also analyze performances of teams The package has function that plot percentage frequency runs or wickets, runs likelihood for a batsman, relative run/strike rates of batsman and relative performance/economy rate for bowlers are available. Other interesting functions include batting performance moving average, forecast and a function to check whether the batsmans in in-form or out-of-form.In addition performances of teams against different oppositions at different venues can be computed and plotted. The timeline of wins & ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.” “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” “The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two,’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.” The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Introduction ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. The cricketr package has several functions that perform several different analyses on both batsman and bowlers. The package can also analyze performances of teams The package has function that plot percentage frequency runs or wickets, runs likelihood for a batsman, relative run/strike rates of batsman and relative performance/economy rate for bowlers are available. Other interesting functions include batting performance moving average, forecast and a function to check whether the batsmans in in-form or out-of-form.In addition performances of teams against different oppositions at different venues can be computed and plotted. The timeline of wins & ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. And she’s got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need. “I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.” “A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.” “It isn’t often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. “There’s something so paradoxical about pi. On the one hand, it represents order, as embodied by the shape of a circle, long held to be a symbol of perfection and eternity. On the other hand, pi is unruly, disheveled in appearance, its digits obeying no obvious rule, or at least none that we can perceive. Pi is elusive and mysterious, forever beyond reach. Its mix of order and disorder is what makes it so bewitching. ”  From  Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz Anybody who wants to be “anybody” in Big Data must necessarily be ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. ‘Cricket analytics with cricketr and cricpy – Analytics harmony with R and Python’ is now available on Amazon in both paperback ($21.99) and kindle ($9.99/Rs 449) versions. The book includes analysis of cricketers using both my R package ‘cricketr’ and my python package ‘cricpy’ for all formats of the game namely Test, ODI and T20. Both packages use data from ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru. The paperback is available on Amazon for $21.99 and the kindle version is available for $9.99/Rs 449 Pick up your copy today! The book includes the following chapters CONTENTS Introduction 71 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. Note: I had written a post about 3 years back on World Bank Data Analysis using World Development Indicators (WDI) & gVisMotionCharts. But the motion charts stopped working  some time ago. I have always been wanting to fix this and I now got to actually doing it. The issue was 2 of the WDI indicators had changed. After I fixed this I was able to host the generated motion chart using github.io pages. Please make sure that you enable flash player if you open the motion charts with Google Chrome. You may also have ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. Out[90]: [[‘Runs’, ‘Mins’, ‘BF’, ‘4s’, ‘6s’, ‘SR’, ‘Pos’, ‘Dismissal’, ‘Inns’, ‘Opposition’, ‘Ground’, ‘Start Date’], [’15’, ’28’, ’24’, ‘2’, ‘0’, ‘62.5’, ‘6’, ‘bowled’, ‘2’, ‘v Pakistan’, ‘Karachi’, ’15-Nov-89′], [‘DNB’, ‘-‘, ‘-‘, ‘-‘, ‘-‘, ‘-‘, ‘-‘, ‘-‘, ‘4’, ‘v Pakistan’, ‘Karachi’, ’15-Nov-89′], [’59’, ‘254’, ‘172’, ‘4’, ‘0’, ‘34.3’, ‘6’, ‘lbw’, ‘1’, ‘v Pakistan’, ‘Faisalabad’, ’23-Nov-89′], [‘8′, ’24’, ’16’, ‘1’, ‘0’, ’50’, ‘6’, ‘run out’, ‘3’, ‘v Pakistan’, ‘Faisalabad’, ’23-Nov-89′]] ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. The cricketr package has several functions that perform several different analyses on both batsman and bowlers. The package has function that plot percentage frequency runs or wickets, runs likelihood for a batsman, relative run/strike rates of batsman and relative performance/economy rate for bowlers are available.Other interesting functions include batting performance moving average, forecast and a function to check whether the batsmans in in-form or out-of-form.The data for a particular player can be obtained with the getPlayerData() function. To do you will need to go to ESPN CricInfo Player and type in the name of the player ... Read More