good Google doodle today

i'll be going live at 1 PM PT tomorrow on twitch with a chill stream working on the NFL's big data bowl competition! please feel free to drop in and hang out tomorrow afternoon! www.twitch.tv/john_b_edwards

4 streams left. this chat is unhinged and godless so i apologize ahead of time twitch.tv/nickwan_data...

hi all, i have 5 streams left before i never stream on this channel ever again! twitch.tv/nickwan_data...

i stopped promoting my usual stream some years ago (aside from my events that i hosted). felt like i was spamming people's TL and everyone who wanted to see the stream were already in there. come stop by and say hi if you haven't yet. my last stream is 10/29!! twitch.tv/nickwan_data...

freddie freeman with the supa hot fiya face lmao

This week's post is going to focus on getting started with the BDB. I have a series of 4 planned for the next two weeks to help get newbies with some base programming knowledge go from zero to a basic model with tracking data. If you have questions, please ask! open.substack.com/pub/cincysam...

GM meetings around the corner. Trying to catch up with friends before then. Trying to squeeze in a date. And also retiring from streaming. Then it’s like 4 weeks before winter meetings and another 4 weeks before first team activities then a couple weeks before I go out to AZ then it’s ST

I want to go to this ramen place but none of my friends want to go ;-;

#SLICED when something so insane happened that people had to tweet about it. Which is funny since everyone who would engage with those tweets were in chat

Looking for examples of intro to revision page for submitting a revised R15 - trying to get a feel for how to structure it/how to indicate changes. Please let me know if you’d be open to sharing!! Trying to get this 17th% R15 through whatever funding threshold the future holds…..

I made a new quarto revealjs template based on Pechakucha, a presentation format where you have 20 slides that auto-advances after 20 seconds. Once started you will not be able to stop it. And it will make sure you have 20 slides whether you like it or not github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

10 more streams left then your oshi graduates

talking about this now! twitch.tv/nickwan_data...

Years ago I passed up an opportunity to work with Nick, and I still regret it. Don't be me.

The Cincinnati Reds are hiring for our Baseball Ops and Analytics trainee roles! Based in Cincy $20/hr (+ COL stipend for trainees in Cincy) www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-job...

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Cincinnati!!!

My first postseason ever

How is everyone feeling tonight

The 2026 Big Data Bowl #BigDataBowl is live! Participants can sign up for two competitions: - leaderboard - traditional analytics competition This year's task: predict/understand player movement when the ball is in the air

Big data bowl is up!! Two types of competitions this year: The prediction track is more of your classic Kaggle prediction competition. Similar to the March madness Kaggle comp, NFL will use the actual game data from this season and the best prediction wins www.kaggle.com/c/nfl-big-da...

(1/5) 🧵 Mortdog's Daily Thoughts 9/24/25 #TFT >>> SEPT 24 - I'm in LA for 2 days to do a presentation of a new idea. (As I said, I'm in future land working on a BUNCH of different things. Mostly next set, but that's not all.) I obviously can't talk about this, but the part I do want to

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do. Tell me the rules you break! I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

LOL this was absolutely me (a total beginner) trying to download and pip install Python. Every single beginner "Getting started with Python!" tutorial reads exactly like this. It was so bad I just stopped, and tried again like 9 months later.

@cata-bush.bsky.social i really liked viz hub!

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Follow for my exclusive, high-priced course on how to read two books in two days* *Trudge through one of the books for ~9 months, then feverishly finish it on a plane for no reason. Then get an excellent recommendation that's <100 pages from a horror YouTuber

this is impossibly unhinged and I'm so glad to own it

You live, you learn

I have no interest in RedZone, but if they want to make every game a prime vision game - I'm in.

I have gigantic calves and they cramp up a lot like right now ow ow ouch I’m just laying and waiting for the pain to leave But the boys got the W so nbd calf cramp W

Just as a comparison, check out recently cut Younghoe Koo. Better FG% at every distance, greater range, etc. The expectations have changed a lot as kickers have raised the bar.

Mac Jones and the San Francisco 49ers take over the Bayou This Sunday

The Mac jones draft and the niners being linked to drafting Mac jones for the entire draft season makes this start so much funnier

tried googling for a pitch trajectory function in python but didn't find one easily. made a gist for everyone gist.github.com/nickwan/ce5c...

41-40 is scorigami, congrats everybody

Not even chatgpt could hallucinate this game

OH CALAMITY

tonges

Spent the last week "replicating" several sabersem presentations from the last sabersem. Was pretty fun! Going to highlight each one I did here. Shoutout to @srbrown70.bsky.social for the list of slides, very helpful. if you want the repo, it's here github.com/nickwan/2025...

going to try to replicate any of these that used savant data this week :)

+ “Prompt engineering”? The vaporware of tech careers? It *would* be useful to know exactly how LLMs work, where bias enters the system, where these companies came from, what their social and psychological and educational effects are. But that is extremely not what these people are talking about!

These are all the slides and github repos from SaberSeminar that I've seen folks post so far. If anyone sees anything missing let me know and I'll add it to the doc! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I went this year to meet people I've known online for forever but had never been in the same room with. @lancebroz.bsky.social, Dan Blewitt, @harrypav.bsky.social , @michaelrosen.bsky.social, @nickwan.bsky.social. But it's a great event. Thanks, @brooksbaseball.net and crew.

At sabersem, say hi if you haven’t yet

Had a pigeon friend at work today

Chris Guccione discussing Jen Pawol.