Ryan Plain
@ryanplain.bsky.social
Data stuff, #rstats enthusiast, art, science, and feeling like Will Smith from iRobot
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-- WEEK 12 #NFL 🏈 Playoff Leverage --
Here you can see
1.) how the playoff probability of each team changes depending on whether they win or lose the next game, and
2.) the combined playoff leverage of the teams involved in each game, sorted by kickoff time.
Here you can see
1.) how the playoff probability of each team changes depending on whether they win or lose the next game, and
2.) the combined playoff leverage of the teams involved in each game, sorted by kickoff time.
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
-- WEEK 12 #NFL 🏈 Playoff Leverage --
Here you can see
1.) how the playoff probability of each team changes depending on whether they win or lose the next game, and
2.) the combined playoff leverage of the teams involved in each game, sorted by kickoff time.
Here you can see
1.) how the playoff probability of each team changes depending on whether they win or lose the next game, and
2.) the combined playoff leverage of the teams involved in each game, sorted by kickoff time.
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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I tried to replicate a model in pymc originally made with brms/stan. Got stuck.
Out of despair, spent a week trapped in AI hell hoping for the best. What finally worked was taking a morning to reproduce a simple model available in the docs (duh). Why do I always have to learn the hard way?
Out of despair, spent a week trapped in AI hell hoping for the best. What finally worked was taking a morning to reproduce a simple model available in the docs (duh). Why do I always have to learn the hard way?
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I tried to replicate a model in pymc originally made with brms/stan. Got stuck.
Out of despair, spent a week trapped in AI hell hoping for the best. What finally worked was taking a morning to reproduce a simple model available in the docs (duh). Why do I always have to learn the hard way?
Out of despair, spent a week trapped in AI hell hoping for the best. What finally worked was taking a morning to reproduce a simple model available in the docs (duh). Why do I always have to learn the hard way?
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oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats
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“it’s October 3rd”
Happy K-Mean Girls Day to those who celebrate
Happy K-Mean Girls Day to those who celebrate
October 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“it’s October 3rd”
Happy K-Mean Girls Day to those who celebrate
Happy K-Mean Girls Day to those who celebrate
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September 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
now #BigDataBowl decides to get on board with snake_case after I gave up and embraced their camelCase
September 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
now #BigDataBowl decides to get on board with snake_case after I gave up and embraced their camelCase
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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
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
September 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
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
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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
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
September 24, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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I stand with @jimmykimmel.com.
On a related note, here's a flashback to him standing up for his son and to protect healthcare coverage for millions of Americans 8 years ago.
acasignups.net/17/09/19/upd...
On a related note, here's a flashback to him standing up for his son and to protect healthcare coverage for millions of Americans 8 years ago.
acasignups.net/17/09/19/upd...
UPDATE: Jimmy Kimmel and his son have some things to get off their chest.
Hey, remember the clip above from back in early May? And remember this from a week later? Yeah, well, about that... Opinion | On health care, Cassidy flunks his own 'Jimmy Kimmel test' https://t.co/Zv...
acasignups.net
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I stand with @jimmykimmel.com.
On a related note, here's a flashback to him standing up for his son and to protect healthcare coverage for millions of Americans 8 years ago.
acasignups.net/17/09/19/upd...
On a related note, here's a flashback to him standing up for his son and to protect healthcare coverage for millions of Americans 8 years ago.
acasignups.net/17/09/19/upd...
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🏈 NFL meets Bayesian stats!
In this episode @alex-andorra.bsky.social chats with Ron Yurko on
👉 Writing your own models
👉 Building a sports analytics portfolio
👉 Pitfalls of modelling expectations
👉 Using tracking data for player insights
👉 Causal thinking in football data
🎧 lnkd.in/gWz4v2JG
In this episode @alex-andorra.bsky.social chats with Ron Yurko on
👉 Writing your own models
👉 Building a sports analytics portfolio
👉 Pitfalls of modelling expectations
👉 Using tracking data for player insights
👉 Causal thinking in football data
🎧 lnkd.in/gWz4v2JG
September 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🏈 NFL meets Bayesian stats!
In this episode @alex-andorra.bsky.social chats with Ron Yurko on
👉 Writing your own models
👉 Building a sports analytics portfolio
👉 Pitfalls of modelling expectations
👉 Using tracking data for player insights
👉 Causal thinking in football data
🎧 lnkd.in/gWz4v2JG
In this episode @alex-andorra.bsky.social chats with Ron Yurko on
👉 Writing your own models
👉 Building a sports analytics portfolio
👉 Pitfalls of modelling expectations
👉 Using tracking data for player insights
👉 Causal thinking in football data
🎧 lnkd.in/gWz4v2JG
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v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
September 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
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At the start of a new season, there is a particularly high interest in the update schedule for nflverse data.
We have a dedicated website where you can view the status of the automated pipelines and obtain information about the schedules.
nflreadr.nflverse.com/articles/nfl...
We have a dedicated website where you can view the status of the automated pipelines and obtain information about the schedules.
nflreadr.nflverse.com/articles/nfl...
September 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
At the start of a new season, there is a particularly high interest in the update schedule for nflverse data.
We have a dedicated website where you can view the status of the automated pipelines and obtain information about the schedules.
nflreadr.nflverse.com/articles/nfl...
We have a dedicated website where you can view the status of the automated pipelines and obtain information about the schedules.
nflreadr.nflverse.com/articles/nfl...
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If you use #tidyverse / dplyr, breakerofchains by @milesmcbain.bsky.social is one of my favorite productivity #rstats 📦
Very excited to learn that it works in #positron too! One more reason to keep using this IDE, absolutely loving it
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
Very excited to learn that it works in #positron too! One more reason to keep using this IDE, absolutely loving it
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
breakerofchains or similar for Positron
One of my all-time favorite R packages is Miles McBain's breakerofchains. You can put your cursor anywhere in a piped command, run a keyboard shortcut, and RStudio will run everything up to the curre...
forum.posit.co
July 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
If you use #tidyverse / dplyr, breakerofchains by @milesmcbain.bsky.social is one of my favorite productivity #rstats 📦
Very excited to learn that it works in #positron too! One more reason to keep using this IDE, absolutely loving it
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
Very excited to learn that it works in #positron too! One more reason to keep using this IDE, absolutely loving it
forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...
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New #CMSAC #SportsAnalytics paper on evaluating change of direction in the #NFL by myself and @stat-ron.bsky.social
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122
Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122
Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.
July 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
New #CMSAC #SportsAnalytics paper on evaluating change of direction in the #NFL by myself and @stat-ron.bsky.social
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122
Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122
Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.
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Data science junkies, get ready! 🚀 "The Test Set" #podcast trailer is here for your viewing pleasure.
Tune in July 1st and every Tuesday after for new episodes with hosts @mchow.com, @hadley.nz, and @wesmckinney.com as they welcome thought leaders in #DataScience.
Subscribe now: pos.it/thetestset
Tune in July 1st and every Tuesday after for new episodes with hosts @mchow.com, @hadley.nz, and @wesmckinney.com as they welcome thought leaders in #DataScience.
Subscribe now: pos.it/thetestset
June 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Data science junkies, get ready! 🚀 "The Test Set" #podcast trailer is here for your viewing pleasure.
Tune in July 1st and every Tuesday after for new episodes with hosts @mchow.com, @hadley.nz, and @wesmckinney.com as they welcome thought leaders in #DataScience.
Subscribe now: pos.it/thetestset
Tune in July 1st and every Tuesday after for new episodes with hosts @mchow.com, @hadley.nz, and @wesmckinney.com as they welcome thought leaders in #DataScience.
Subscribe now: pos.it/thetestset
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Huge week for competitive data visualization! Viz Buzz returns this Thursday! 9 data visualizers compete all through June to see who can replicate intricate and elaborate graphs in under 40 mins
Every Thursday starting at 8pm ET
twitch.tv/nickwan_datasci
See you there!!
Every Thursday starting at 8pm ET
twitch.tv/nickwan_datasci
See you there!!
June 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Huge week for competitive data visualization! Viz Buzz returns this Thursday! 9 data visualizers compete all through June to see who can replicate intricate and elaborate graphs in under 40 mins
Every Thursday starting at 8pm ET
twitch.tv/nickwan_datasci
See you there!!
Every Thursday starting at 8pm ET
twitch.tv/nickwan_datasci
See you there!!
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Just a dumb little joke to brighten your day.
May 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Just a dumb little joke to brighten your day.
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I'm on a podcast! I had a blast talking with @lucystats.bsky.social and @epiellie.bsky.social on @casualinfer.bsky.social! We cover all sorts of fun things: {marginaleffects}, defining estimands, fixed vs. random effects, & how to teach all this stats stuff in accessible ways #databs #EpiSky #rstats
Casual Inference: The Art of Clarity with Andrew Heiss | Season 6 Episode 6
Andrew Heiss is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Vincent’s “What is your estimand” s...
casualinfer.libsyn.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I'm on a podcast! I had a blast talking with @lucystats.bsky.social and @epiellie.bsky.social on @casualinfer.bsky.social! We cover all sorts of fun things: {marginaleffects}, defining estimands, fixed vs. random effects, & how to teach all this stats stuff in accessible ways #databs #EpiSky #rstats
I love the name of this page ibis-project.org/reference/cu...
Ibis
the portable Python dataframe library
ibis-project.org
May 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I love the name of this page ibis-project.org/reference/cu...
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Me and a lot of people from all over the world talk about just how dead R is; like so dead. www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...
#rstats #thewideworldofr #datascience | Jeremy Allen | 132 comments
R is so dead that there are thousands of economists, actuaries, statisticians, bioinformaticists, epidemiologists, biologists, ecologists, geologists, geographers, psychologists, demographers, sociolo...
www.linkedin.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Me and a lot of people from all over the world talk about just how dead R is; like so dead. www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...
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We have a "never use yellow if you can help it" rule for our charts. We couldn't help it on this one
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
May 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We have a "never use yellow if you can help it" rule for our charts. We couldn't help it on this one
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
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Can see the valley that Arizona comes out of around the midway mark of the season. They do trend down a bit after that, but they had a great stretch there specifically against the Bears, Jets, and Seahawks.
May 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Can see the valley that Arizona comes out of around the midway mark of the season. They do trend down a bit after that, but they had a great stretch there specifically against the Bears, Jets, and Seahawks.
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May 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM