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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Wonder if my T20 win probability models work live at the game? #BBL15

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Will miss Alyssa Healy! A genuine superstar of the game. Will be very glad to hear her insights in the commentary box!

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Almost halfway through the regular season for the Women's Big Bash League #WBBL - time for some charts from the #cricreadR package. Very much love following this league! Total impact per game by total balls faced or bowled - Meg Lanning is such a beast Georgia Wareham sighting number 1 1/3

Total impact per game chart. X axis = balls faced or bowled per game. Y axis = total impact per game. Meg Lanning top right, following by Georgia Wareham and Danni Wyatt-Hodge

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Tan @tanho.ca · 02/09/2025

#nflverse news: we've just published nflreadr v1.5.0 to CRAN in time for the new season 🎉 It comes with a few 🚨breaking changes🚨 to core functions, of note: - load_players() - load_player/team_stats() - load_depth_charts() - load_participation() Full changelog here, details in thread 🧵

nflreadr.nflverse.com

Changelog

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Wanted to compare how different cricket grounds produce different scores. Utilised a similar methodology as Baseball - see link - however used strike rate. Give the Hundred is on currently, makes most sense to present the Women's and Men's 100 Park Factors www.mlb.com/glossary/adv...

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Due to Cricinfo API changes cricreadr previously hadn’t ingested any new matches since October 2024. I’ve now fixed this! 🎉🥳 Data is now being updated again on a daily basis for the *main* T20 competitions being played: github.com/albtree/cric...

Screenshot of a successful GitHub action being pushed to cricreadR

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Sebastian Carl @mrcaseb.com · 17/07/2025

Rare breaking change in the #nflverse! `nflreadr::load_players()` now loads v2 players data. During the process of the rewrite I decided to rename some variables for consistency and removed some irrelevant variables. Please see the below table for a detailed comparison of old and new data.

Variable name comparison of v1 and v2 nflverse players data.

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 01/07/2025

Suppose every baguette molecule is a data point, the whole loaf obviously has a negative correlation and each slice obviously has a positive correlation. Should think of simpson's paradox as a kind of selection bias. Every time you cut a data set you cut along some sort of shape.

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Connor LaPlante @cplant.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Was taking a look at the college RTMs done by @talbtree.bsky.social There are 3 players drafted in the top 10 of the NFL draft with a 99+ Overall Score...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 09/05/2025

missed this last month: data science informing psych, sociology, polisci in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed** beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Science abstract: POLICING
High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding
Pradhi Aggarwal1, Alec Brandon2*, Ariel Goldszmidt3, Justin Holz4, John A. List3, Ian Muir5, Gregory Sun6, Thomas Yu7
Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and their implications for our understanding of racial profiling. Using high-frequency location data of rideshare drivers in Florida (N = 222,838 individuals), we estimate the effect of driver race on citations and fines for speeding using 19.3 million location pings. Compared with a white driver traveling the same speed, we find that racial or ethnic minority drivers are 24 to 33% more likely to be cited for speeding and pay 23 to 34% more money in fines. We find no evidence that accident and reoffense rates explain these estimates, which suggests that an animus against minorities underlies our results.

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trevin @trevinflickinger.com · 31/03/2025

“Analyzing Baseball Data with R” book club ⚾️ Dive into baseball analytics with us! Perfect for beginner (to advanced) R coders who want to explore sabermetrics. #rstats Join us by sharing your availability here: dslc.io/bookclubber?... (If it asks for a URL for the slack it’s dsclio.slack.com)

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

My cricket R package (github.com/albtree/cric...) has been out of action since October after an API change. Have finally started working on it again. Popped out some Women's Premier League charts from some old code.

Scatter plot for top 20 bowlers by balls bowled in the 2025 Women's Indian Premier League cricket competition. X axis is dot balls bowled %. Y axis is boundary % against. Both axes are reversed so best remains top right. Shabnim Ismail and Shikha Pandey are the top 2 bowlers in the top right.

Scatter plot for top 20 batters by balls facedin the 2025 Women's Indian Premier League cricket competition. X axis is non boundary strike rate. Y axis is boundary %. Annabel Sutherland and Sarah Bryce are middle right leading the way in non boundary strike rate over 5. Richa Ghosh is top middle leading the way in boundary % at about 40%

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Trying to use mindfulness more regularly when I’m feeling overwhelmed or need a circuit breaker to help snap out of a grumpy mood. Wanted to share this one from last week, especially the quote: “You deserve this time. You matter and so does your well being” Good self care! youtu.be/pB_qUY1dPrs?...

youtu.be

Free Five Minute Guided Meditation with Eve

YouTube video by Headspace

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Same, same but different “Let me just dive into these 1,000 records that are showing up wrong. Ok will just join them to this other table **code runs for a few mins*** Ah, 1.2million results….wrong”

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Week 4 as a data analyst using SQL Me: beautiful, got all the right fields, looking great, good job me! *compares results with an old report* 155 rows vs 4 rows 😂

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Billy @billym91.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Greg Olsen putting on a clinic on why Arizona should go for this

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A disastrous first 4 overs for Melbourne Renegades. Such a good season and it could be all undone unless things stabilise a bit #WBBL

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Planned to take the kids to the #WBBL this morning but that’s not going to happen with this rain unfortunately!

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Update: Picking up new laptop later today Wife is conveniently out for dinner tonight…. >30fps here I come

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Maddy @maddyoby.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Finding women’s cricket community: Starter pack (easy way to follow a bunch of people): go.bsky.app/HTw1qjb List (a timeline of posts from people who chat women’s cricket): bsky.app/profile/did:... Both SP & list are still being built as people come. Please let me know if you’d like to be added.

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Running this now. Even if you don't have your twitter archive you can run it on slow mode which can delete up to 4000 posts an hour (Thanks @tanho.ca for the tip!) Bye Twitter 👋

3 panel blade runner screenshots from tears in rain scene

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Played some competitive CS again tonight for the first time in ~15 years. Felt right considering the release of de_train Good fun! New laptop definitely needed though….

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Game on Paper @gameonpaper.com · 14/11/2024

We're hearing Bluesky has positive EPA/play

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Bluesky explosion. YLTSI

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Tan @tanho.ca · 08/11/2024

Echoing this, if you're looking for an #rstats engineer job and/or are interested in soccer analytics, please let me know!

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Spotted on a Tuesday afternoon in a bustling cafe in small city Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human hard at work with pencils and paper while her mum chats to a friend. The adults ask what she's drawing and she declares: It's a ship! With dead people drowning! And dolphins! She beams proudly. (1)

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Starting my new data analyst job next week and wanted to have a refresh of SQL. Ran through the SQL Murder Mystery (mystery.knightlab.com) and SQL Island (sql-island.informatik.uni-kl.de). Nice confidence boost seeing how much quicker and more efficient I was compared to a few months ago

mystery.knightlab.com

SQL Murder Mystery

Use SQL queries to solve the murder mystery. Suitable for beginners or experienced SQL sleuths.

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

In the spirit of being new to bsky, I made a starter pack of stats/data folks in Australia If you want to be on the list or know others who should be on the list (or want to be taken off the list!) let me know :) #stats #data #rstats #episky go.bsky.app/3wERdAo

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Tan @tanho.ca · 30/10/2024

Loads of great #rstats and #dataBS starter packs going around, here's an attempt at a #SportsAnalytics starter pack - please DM if you think I've missed you/anyone else!

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Tim @talbtree.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Moved the blue sky app to my front page. It’s a step

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