Well, the 2020 MLB Season has finally arrived, roughly four months after the previously scheduled start date. In advance of Opening Day tonight, I’m going to share my fantasy baseball player rankings, and the methodology behind the system. Note these rankings are designed for a snake draft (no auction values)...
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Build a Statcast Database in R
The following is a set of instructions to build and format a comprehensive MLB Statcast database including play-by-play data and statistics such as pitch tracking, exit velocity, and launch angle. Bill Petti’s scraping functions from the baseballr R package are used to source data from Baseball Savant. Full R code...
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The Need for Sustainable Global Food Policy
Research Study Conducted in Stockholm, Sweden
INTRODUCTION Today, the global food system has become a naturally complex web of consumers, producers, and policymakers, each with different set of ideas and priorities for the future of the industry. Nevertheless, despite diverging opinions, experts in the field all gravitate towards one conclusion: the current system is unsustainable. There...
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An Open Letter to IBM on Facial Recognition
In January 2019, IBM released a collection of nearly a million photos scraped from image hosting service Flickr to academic and corporate research groups. The photos were filtered from a Yahoo, then parent company of Flickr, publication in 2014 of 100 million images, and annotated with skin tone, estimated age...
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playerElo 2019
Factoring Strength of Schedule into MLB Player Analysis
Shiny App
Fangraphs Publication
CMSAC Research Competition (Runner-Up)
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