Introduction I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan Success is ...

Introduction In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not. Yogi Berra There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. Alan Perlis Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Alan Perlis Talk is cheap. Show me the code. Linux Torvalds ...

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture One of ...

Introduction “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the ...

Alice:“How long is forever”? White Rabbit:“Sometimes, just one second.” Alice :“Where should I go?” The Cheshire Cat: “That depends on where you want to end up.” “I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” Alice through the looking glass - Lewis ...

Introduction “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.” “Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.” “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” The Art of War - Sun ...

Introduction He will win, who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win, who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. Hence the skilful fighter puts himself in a position ...

“It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say ‘Go away, I ’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.” “But even though Quality cannot be defined, you know what Quality is!” “The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite comfortably in the circuits ...

Introduction “I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.” Robin Williams Get your facts first. Then you can distort them as you please. Mark Twain Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard This is the 3rd post ...

  Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Rabindranath Tagore Introduction In this post, my R package yorkr crashes the IPL party! In my earlier posts I had already created functions ...

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. Albert Einstein *Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.“* Immanuel Kant If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants Isaac Newton Valid criticism does ...

“We need to regard statistical intuition with proper suspicion and replace impression formation by computation wherever possible” “We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world” “The hot hand is entirely in the eyes of the beholders, who are consistently” “too quick to perceive order and causality in randomeness. The ...

Introduction This is the 3rd part of my cricket package yorkr in R. In my 2 earlier posts The making of cricket package yorkr – Part 1. This post analyzed the performance of team in a ODI match. The batting and bowling performances of the team were analyzed. This post also performed analyses ...

Introduction In this post (The making of cricket package yorkr-Part 2),  I continue to add new functionality to my package cricket package yorkr in R. In my earlier post The making of cricket package yorkr-Part 1 I had included functionality that will plot batsman partnerships, bowlers performances with wicket-kind, wicket-runs in specified ...

Introduction Here is a sneak preview of my latest package cricket package yorkr in R. My earlier package ‘cricketr’ (see Introducing cricketr: An R package for analyzing performances of cricketers) was based on data from ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru. My current package ‘yorkr’ is based on data from Cricsheet. The data ...

My book “Cricket analytics with cricketr” is now available in paperback and Kindle versions. The paperback is available from Amazon (US, UK and Europe) for $ 48.99. The Kindle version can be downloaded from the Kindle store for $2.50 (Rs 169/-). Do pick your copy. It should be a good read for a ...

My ebook “Cricket analytics with cricketr’  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 link  “Cricket analytics with cricketr”. The book has been published in the following formats namely PDF (...