Conor McLaughlin

With the 2018 World Cup (and painful non-qualification) now fully in the mirror, American soccer fans have a lot to look forward to.

I love the Home Run Derby.

Baseball is a sport of inches - one half inch here and a fly out turns into a home run, one half inch there and a liner turns into a double play.

Chris Paul.

Making Sense of DC’s Public Salary Data In the interest of transparency, most government institutions post the salary data of their employees, so that the public can have insight and visibility into where their tax dollars are going.

Soto’s Debut Nationals fans eagerly anticipated Juan Soto’s arrival to the major leagues, and boy, did he deliver.

Background My dad recently came to me with an interesting proposition - cracking a combination lock where the first and last numbers are (probably) known.

In an effort to determine the league’s best rim protectors, I’ve put together a statistic I’d like to call RIMD: a weighted efficiency statistic that seeks to measure how effectively players can defend shots at the rim, giving preference to those who cont…

A Primer on Usage Rate Usage rate describes the percentage of team plays used by a particular player while that player is on the court - basically, how likely a given player is to end a possession with a field goal attempt, free throws, or a turnover.

Partly in an effort to learn Tableau a little better, partly in an effort to see what the Nat’s historical payroll looks like, and partly because I hadn’t seen a tool like this before, I put together a Tableau Public graphic detailing each MLB team’s payr…

A recent study by food scientists titled “Uncovering the Nutritional Landscape of Food” ranked the world’s healthiest foods, focusing on options which will help fulfill, but not exceed, your daily nutritional requirements.

I’ve been mucking around in R quite a bit lately and have grown tired of all the annoying configuration changes that are required to take your data/analysis from one machine to another.

This year’s All Star Game pitting Team LeBron vs Team Steph was an unexpected delight - seemingly the first time in years that any actual defense was played (thanks Joel Embiid!)

Overview Last time I posted about the Cavs, they were on the mend and in the midst of a 13-game winning streak.

Trading Blake makes the Clippers Better There’s already a general consensus amongst NBA talking heads that the Blake trade was a smart move for the Clippers - getting off the nearly $140 million remaining on his contract will dramatically increase their f…

Backstory A little while ago, I impulse purchased one of Amazon’s $20 “AWS IoT Buttons”.

Down in the Dumps On November 9th, the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Houston Rockets 113-117, pushing their already-disappointing record down to 5-7 on the year.

Recap A few days ago, I wrote a post outlining how I use Hugo and Amazon S3 to create a severless blog hosting platform.

After deciding to launch this blog a few months ago, I was faced with the choice of how to best host and run a small website.

Following our examination of DC housing market in August and September, I wanted to update our numbers and graphs for the month of October.

After adding Paul George and Carmelo Anthony, many assumed that the Oklahoma City Thunder would challenge the Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, and San Antonio Spurs for seeding at the top of the Western Conference and potentially even knock those t…

Following our examination of DC housing market in August, I wanted to update our numbers and graphs for the month of September.

National League Most Valuable Player Preseason Favorite: Bryce Harper (+300) The Pick: Giancarlo Stanton 3.

The Data One of my favorite DC blogs is POPville - written by the Prince of Petworth himself, Dan Silverman.

Week 1 Recap The first week of the NFL season was full of surprises.

The News Amazon’s recent announcement that it is looking to build a second North American headquarters dubbed “HQ2” has sent a shock through most major US Cities.

I’ve never bet on football before - besides Fantasy Football, the closest I’ve ever gotten to “gambling” is the $5 Super Bowl boxes at my office.

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