WELCOME TO dataHEARD
A website that provides posts on data visualizations and various code templates to pull data from my personal interests. Feel free to read through the blogs and use the templates.
Also, home to weekly Premier League Fantrax fantasy blogs.
LATEST POSTS
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GW24: The Draft Pick
Premier League Fantrax Waiver Wire — Weekly Picks with InsightNote: All stats mentioned are listed as values per 90 minutes played (source FotMob) As a bit of a data nerd, it was sad to hear that FBRef has been forced to remove its advanced data due to contract issues with Opta. This means I’ll be… Read more
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GW23: The Draft Pick
Premier League Fantrax Waiver Wire — Weekly Picks with InsightNote: All stats mentioned are listed as values per 90 minutes played Last weekend was a pure fantasy rollercoaster! I was chasing 14 points from Van Hecke to win my head-to-head match, and when he got booked, I thought I was done for. Then, out of… Read more
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Three Decades of the Premier League
An Investigation into League Positions, the Rise of Goals and The Lost Art of Defending They say the Premier League is a completely different beast today than it was in the 90s. We talk about the ‘high-press,’ the ‘tactical evolution,’ and the ‘death of the 4-4-2,’ but I wanted to see if the data actually… Read more
CODE
Click here to see scripts of code I’ve written to pull the data I need and how to use the code as a template.
ABOUT ME
Originally from Northampton, England, I moved to the United States on a football/soccer scholarship to the University of Kentucky back in 2010.
After, I graduated with a degree in Mathematics + Statistics, before earning my Masters in Statistics in 2017.
Since then I’ve been able to combine my passions and love for data visualization to explore a variety of subjects.
