Jonathan Samson

Baseball statistics. Probably going to focus on hitting. Likely to involve hitter’s exit velocity.
Brennan, Lilly, Mazurok, Patel, Samson

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/as-a-baseball-fan-gabe-kaplers-approach-presents-a-real-problem-to-me-and-heres-why/
I am not a huge Philadelphia sports fan, but recent events regarding the Phillies have certainly caught my attention. Gabe Kapler, who I must admit, I was a huge fan of (considering he was an extremely successful Director of…[Read more]

A KPI that I have daily access to is an app called “Quality Time” on my phone which tracks data relevant to my phone usage (i.e. usage duration, number of times I unlock my screen, how much time I’m spending on specific apps, how many times I go to an app a day, etc.). With the app, I try to monitor and limit my excessive phone usage as much as…[Read more]

Personally, I am not using data consistently enough in my life to be making one of the listed mistakes we have talked about. If I were to guess which mistake I would make though, I would say it is safe to assume I might make mistake number 1 and mistake number 6. I am absolutely one to blindly click “yes” on things without regard for the…[Read more]

http://tcbmag.com/news/articles/2018/april/small-ball-meets-big-data-inside-the-twins-swing
The article chronicles the Twins endeavor into the field of using data analytics and sabremetrics to help them make baseball decisions (which was long overdue). The Twins were an organization that relied heavily on old-fashioned baseball decision-making…[Read more]

I see a lot of responses that say simplification is the most important, which is hard to argue with, but to make things interesting I would suggest that asking why is the most important data visualization principle. Asking why is such a critical aspect of data visualization because it the reason–the story– as to why something is happening. It is…[Read more]