Root Mean Squared Musings

In my last post I provided my model’s predictions for the play-in games. [Read More]

For the first time, I decided to submit predictions for the annual Kaggle March Madness prediction contest. Since I have the predictions at hand I thought I would post them as each round progresses with any comments about what it’s seeing. [Read More]

I’ve seen a few questions recently regarding how one could build their own database of play-by-play data, most notably Statcast data, by pulling data from the wonderful baseballsavant. [Read More]

This is a guide to using the Yelp API with R. The approach borrows liberally from advice published by Jenny Bryan. [Read More]

If you do any decent amout of web scraping you’ve probably run into this situation: You have scheduled job set up to collect data from a website on some set interval (say, daily), where the assumption is the website will have updated its data by a certain time. [Read More]