Tag: Baseball
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Getting Insight from Data: Baseball
Big Data is cited by many prognosticators as a major growth area in computer science over the next decade. While definitions of Big Data abound, the basic idea is that data is being collected as such a rate and with such volume now that traditional ways of saving and analyzing it no longer suffice. (Neal…
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Never miss a ballgame
As Tim Kurkjian famously said, “Never miss the opportunity to go to a baseball game. You might see something you’ve never seen before.” This week I’m in Asheville, NC. I’m very busy with my Securing Java Web Applications class while other issues keep coming up, but the bottom line is that the Asheville Tourists (the…
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Minor league baseball rocks
I’ve been traveling a lot lately. Fortunately, this is baseball season, so sometimes I get a chance to visit a park I’ve never been to before. Last week I was in Allentown, PA. Actually, that’s not quite true — I was actually in Schnecksville, PA, a small suburb of Allentown. It turns out that this…
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MLB playoffs from a TV Networks perspective
When the playoffs began, there was a chance that the championship series would have involved teams from [Note: TV market size in square brackets] New York (could even have had two teams) [1] Los Angeles (more or less) [2] Chicago [3] Philadelphia [4] It turned out that the cities actually involved are Boston [7] Cleveland…
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Baseball playoffs start (yay!)
I know, I know. The Rockies – Padres game wasn’t technically in the playoffs. The stats counted as regular season stats, which meant the batting title was still at risk and Jake Peavy had a chance to win his 20th game (which, of course, didn’t happen). But still, that was some game. Some quick observations:…
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Groovier Box Scores
I made a couple more fixes to my box scores script to make it a bit groovier. First is a trivial one, but it’s much more in the Groovy idiom than in Java. I replaced def cal = Calendar.getInstance() with def cal = Calendar.instance Groovy automatically uses the getter if you access a property of…
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Groovy Box Scores (minor correction)
I noticed running the Groovy code I posted the other day that I accidentally reversed home and away. It’s not critical, because I still got the URL right, but it’s better to be right. The fix was just to switch the groups: away = m.group(1) home = m.group(2) and then to update the ${away} and…
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Groovy Box Scores
Long ago I decided the best thing about Ruby on Rails was Ruby. Ruby is a great language, with a friendly community and lots of samples to learn from. Still, it’s quite a radical change from Java, which is the language where I am most comfortable. That brought me to Grails, on a journey I’ve…
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It’s not all Gagne’s fault
I’ll keep this short and sweet. Yes, if it wasn’t for Eric Gagne, the Red Sox probably would have swept all three games against the Orioles rather than lose two of three. Yes, the Yankees are playing video game baseball right now and may win no matter what we do. But somebody please, please explain…
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I got Potterred
Here I am, minding my own business, digging into Struts 2.0, when an owl from Amazon.com delivered a package on my doorstep on Saturday. There was a book inside. To be honest, it wasn’t completely unexpected. I stopped reading the Harry Potter series after book 5, because I really didn’t like the extended scenes of…