Results for baseball

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  Shortening baseball games

  Baseball games grew longer over the decades, with the average length well over…
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  Falling spin rates in baseball after rule enforcement

  NYT’s The Upshot analyzed spin rate on pitches before and after enforcing a…

• Machine learning to steal baseball signs

  Mark Rober, who is great at explaining and demonstrating math and engineering to…
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  Counting baseball cliches

  Post-game sports interviews tend to sound similar. And when you do say something…
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  Little League baseball analytics that would change the game forever

  Oh. So that’s why I was always placed in right field that one…
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  Baseball hitting angles on the rise

  After the crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs, home runs in professional baseball dipped the…
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  A beard scale for baseball

  There are a lot of beards and other types of facial hair in…
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  Using baseball bats to display data

  When a baseball player is hitting well, commentators will sometimes say that it…
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  Detailed map of baseball fandom →

  For the past couple of sports seasons, Facebook mapped the most liked team…
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  Analysis of baseball ticket pricing

  If you’ve ever looked at ticket prices for sporting events, you probably noticed…
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  Baseball Hall of Fame voting trajectories

  Carlos Scheidegger and Kenny Shirley, along with Chris Volinsky, visualized Major League Baseball…
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  Every baseball game and play since 1951 on your iPad

  If you love baseball and have an iPad, you need Pennant, a project…

• Chernoff Faces to Display Baseball Managers From 2007 MLB Season

  Check out this lovely use of Chernoff Faces by Steve Wang of Swarthmore…
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  Download Detailed Baseball Statistics from the DataBank

  Get your free, detailed baseball statistics here, free of charge. Go ahead, have some fun.
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  Scale of Things

  Whether a difference seems big or small, important or not, depends on the scale you choose.
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  Comparing home run in distance different stadiums

  In Major League Baseball, a player hits a home run when the ball…
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  Chartball is sports data visualized in a playful way

  With Chartball, Andrew Garcia Phillips has visualized sports data for a while, publishing…
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  All the Foreign Bodies That Got Stuck

  Many things get stuck in people’s bodies. This is the percentage breakdown for the most common objects that end up in the emergency room.
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  Visualization for Analysis vs. Visualization for an Audience (The Process #59)

  The visualizations are used and read differently, which requires that you approach their design differently.
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  Visualization Tools and Resources, July 2019 Roundup (The Process #50)

  Every month I collect useful visualization tools and resources. Here’s the good stuff for July.