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Alexandra D Brace commented on the post, Weekly Question #10: Complete by April 19, 2017, on the site 7 years, 6 months ago
A data driven service that I use often is FanGraphs, a website that shows different articles and baseball statistics. If I wanted to store the data in a spreadsheet, the columns would include the different sections of the site such as FanGraphs, RotoGraphs, Hardball Times, Podcasts, and the other listed sources of content. Each row in the…[Read more]
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Alexandra D Brace commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 7 years, 6 months ago
The article discussed the increase in velocity for Major League pitchers already in the 2017 season. I thought it was interesting that despite the apparent increase in velocity, most pitchers still throw around the same velocity as last year, but the tracking systems…[Read more] -
Alexandra D Brace commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by March 22, 2017, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
A KPI I used regularly in high school was a website that tracked our deadlines for major assignments. The website showed specifically which classes needed improvement or attention with a completion percentage for each task. It is achievable because by the middle of the year, all work submitted was sent out to graders; therefore, the website was…[Read more]
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Alexandra D Brace commented on the post, Weekly Question #6: Complete by March 8, 2017, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
Last year when I worked on a paper about trends in on base percentage in baseball players over a season, I hit “select all” but Excel missed a few columns. I did not realize the mistake for a long time and the sorted spreadsheet showed completely different results. Unfortunately it took me two times as long to figure out and fix the issue so the…[Read more]
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Alexandra D Brace posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
The data sets show the change in shifts in baseball throughout the past few years and how the hitters adjusted to this change. Although there was a drastic increase in shifts recently, hitters responded by changing their approach to avoid hitting into the…[Read more] -
Alexandra D Brace posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
In my opinion, the most important principle is to be skeptical. All too often do people take what they are reading for face value without questioning the methods of data collection or author’s purpose for the data visualization. It is important that people know the correct facts and not just the first result that appears. As last week’s in-class…[Read more]
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Alexandra D Brace commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
The visualization shows the 2012 payroll against wins in Major League Baseball. Data in the scatter plot compares the relationship between team payroll and total wins. Through the information represented on the plot, it reveals that the team with the highest payroll did not get the most win…[Read more] -
Alexandra D Brace posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
FanGraphs is one of the leading websites for baseball statistics for both the major and minor leagues. This article describes the projected statistics of the top 24 prospects for the St. Louis Cardinals. The author used KATOH projection, which is a newer projection…[Read more]