A debate about which language is better suited for Datascience, R or Python, can set off diehard fans of these languages into a tizzy. This post tries to look at some of the different similarities and similar differences between these languages. To a large extent the ease or difficulty in ...

The 2nd edition of both my books a) Cricket analytics with cricketr b) Beaten by sheer pace – Cricket analytics with yorkr is now available on Amazon, both as Paperback and Kindle versions. Pick up your copies today!!! A) Cricket analytics with cricketr: Second Edition B) Beaten by sheer pace: Cricket ...

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll No analysis of cricket is complete, without determining how players would perform in the host country. Playing Test cricket on foreign pitches, in ...

My books – Cricket Analytics with cricketr – Beaten by sheer pace!: Cricket analytics with yorkr are now available on Amazon in both Paperback and Kindle versions The cricketr and yorkr packages are written in R, and both are available in CRAN. The books contain details on how to use these R ...

In this post I introduce ‘Inswinger’ an interactive Shiny app to analyze International T20 players, matches and teams. This app was a natural consequence to my earlier Shiny app ‘GooglyPlus’. Most of the structure for this app remained the same, I only had to work with a different dataset, so ...

In this post I introduce “GooglyPlus” another more evolved version of my earlier Shiny app “Googly”. My R package ‘yorkr’,  on which both these Shiny apps are based, has the ability to output either a dataframe or plot, depending on a parameter plot=TRUE or FALSE. My initial version of ...

Presenting ‘Googly’, a cool Shiny app that I developed over the last couple of days. This interactive Shiny app was on my mind for quite some time, and I finally got down to implementing it. The Googly Shiny app is based on my R package ‘yorkr’ which is now available ...

Recently I was surfing the web, when I came across a real cool post New R package to access World Bank data, by Markus Gesmann on using googleVis and motion charts with World Bank Data. The post also introduced me to Hans Rosling, Professor of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. Hans ...

Introduction This is a post I have been wanting to write for several months, but had to put it off for one reason or another. In this post I use my R package cricketr to analyze the performance of All-rounder greats namely Kapil Dev, Ian Botham, Imran Khan and Richard ...

Fresh, and slightly dizzy, from my foray into Quantum Computing with IBM’s Quantum Experience, I now turn my attention to IBM’s Data Science Experience (DSE). I am on the verge of completing a really great 3 module ‘Data Science and Engineering with Spark XSeries’ from the University of California, ...

Introduction My 5-qubit Quantum Computing Simulator,QCSimulator, is finally ready, and here it is! I have been able to successfully complete this simulator by working through a fair amount of material. To a large extent, the simulator is easy, if one understands how to solve the quantum circuit. However the ...

This post is a continuation of my earlier post ‘Exploring Quantum gate operations with QCSimulator’. Here I take a closer look at more quantum gates and their operations, besides implementing these new gates in my Quantum Computing simulator, the  QCSimulator in R. Disclaimer: This article represents the author’s viewpoint ...

Introduction: Ever since I was initiated into Quantum Computing, through IBM’s Quantum Experience I have been hooked. My initial encounter with domain made me very excited and all wound up. The reason behind this, I think, is because there is an air of mystery around ‘Quantum’ anything.  After my ...

In this post I re-introduce R package cricketr. I have added 8 new functions to my R package cricketr, available from version cricketr_0.0.13 namely batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate bowlerCumulativeAvgWicketRate relativeBatsmanCumulativeAvgRuns relativeBatsmanCumulativeStrikeRate relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgWickets relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate This post updates my earlier post Introducing cricketr:An R package for analyzing performances of cricketrs Yet all experience ...

My book “Beaten by sheer pace! Cricket analytics with yorkr” is now available in paperback and Kindle versions. The paperback is available from Amazon (US, UK and Europe) for $ 54.95. The Kindle version can be downloaded from the Kindle store for $4.99 (Rs 332/-). Do pick up your copy. It should be ...

My ebook “Beaten by sheer pace – Cricket analytics with yorkr’  has been published in Leanpub.  You can now download the book (hot off the press!)  for all formats to your favorite device (mobile, iPad, tablet, Kindle)  from the Leanpub  “Beaten by sheer pace!”. The book has been published in the ...