Comments on: Tracking Manny Ramirez’s Hunt for 500 Homers http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/16/tracking-manny-ramirezs-hunt-for-500-homers/ Strength in Numbers Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:15:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nathan http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/16/tracking-manny-ramirezs-hunt-for-500-homers/#comment-4603 Nathan Sun, 18 May 2008 06:29:21 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/16/tracking-manny-ramirezs-hunt-for-500-homers/#comment-4603 @Tony: ah, i didn't even notice that you can zoom in on the timeline. makes it that much better. slightly better than the usual spreadsheet of digits. @Tony: ah, i didn’t even notice that you can zoom in on the timeline. makes it that much better. slightly better than the usual spreadsheet of digits.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/16/tracking-manny-ramirezs-hunt-for-500-homers/#comment-4592 Jon Peltier Sat, 17 May 2008 14:10:24 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/16/tracking-manny-ramirezs-hunt-for-500-homers/#comment-4592 Nah, it's wicked awesome! Nah, it’s wicked awesome!

]]> By: Tony Rose http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/16/tracking-manny-ramirezs-hunt-for-500-homers/#comment-4512 Tony Rose Fri, 16 May 2008 14:29:37 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/16/tracking-manny-ramirezs-hunt-for-500-homers/#comment-4512 Ditto Jon's comments - this is a great visualization. And being a Sox fan it's that much more cool, or should I say, wicked cool! If you click on a year, the timline zooms in and you can see multiple HR days by looking for the larger bubbles. I love to see 2 in one day off Mike Mussina on 4/17/08! What's also neat is when you click on a stadium, the balls fly from home plate to where they landed. Nice simulation! 79 first pitch HRs - Jeez Very nicely done by the Boston Globe Ditto Jon’s comments – this is a great visualization. And being a Sox fan it’s that much more cool, or should I say, wicked cool!

If you click on a year, the timline zooms in and you can see multiple HR days by looking for the larger bubbles. I love to see 2 in one day off Mike Mussina on 4/17/08!

What’s also neat is when you click on a stadium, the balls fly from home plate to where they landed. Nice simulation!

79 first pitch HRs – Jeez

Very nicely done by the Boston Globe

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/16/tracking-manny-ramirezs-hunt-for-500-homers/#comment-4494 Jon Peltier Fri, 16 May 2008 11:37:58 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/16/tracking-manny-ramirezs-hunt-for-500-homers/#comment-4494 That's cool. An interesting front end to a database. I had to force myself to stop exploring. It would be interesting to be able to browse to home runs by inning, by score, by whether his team eventually won the game. It would also be fun to find multiple home run performances, or which teammates and he have hit homer in the same game most frequently, and if I explored further I'd find more interesting cross sections of the data. That’s cool. An interesting front end to a database. I had to force myself to stop exploring.

It would be interesting to be able to browse to home runs by inning, by score, by whether his team eventually won the game. It would also be fun to find multiple home run performances, or which teammates and he have hit homer in the same game most frequently, and if I explored further I’d find more interesting cross sections of the data.

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