Posts

Updating the email forwarding on AWS SES

Swithing from JavaScript to Python for my SES forwarding and setting up for a better spam filter.

Apr 5, 2024

Cost of Hosting a Shiny Server on AWS

After setting up a shiny server, I watched how much it cost and was quite surprised.

Jul 3, 2022

Setting up a Shiny Server using only AWS services
Setting up a Shiny Server using only AWS services

My adventures in setting up a shiny server using AWS and hugo.

Aug 28, 2021

Simulating a baseball game

Using R and Dynamic Programming to simulate a baseball game.

Aug 11, 2020

Setting up an email signature

It takes some consideration to determine what you put into an email signature but there are some great services out there to help.

Aug 2, 2020

Setting up a personal email address using AWS

It's not straight forward to set up a professional email using AWS and another email client.

Jul 30, 2020

MLB Player Similarity - Validation

As many of you are aware, Baseball-Reference calculates a similarity score for each player against other players. Although this is an accepted way to calculate the similarity between two players, I wanted to see if my methodology compares. I ran my methodology for Hank Aaron (someone we all know and can understand the comparisons) and compared the list I got against the list Baseball-Reference posted. First, let’s look at what Baseball-Reference has:

Nov 13, 2019

MLB Player Similarity - Calculation

An initial look into how to calculate the similarity between two players in Major League Baseball.

Nov 10, 2019

Introduction to Similar Players in MLB

An introduction to some thoughts on using data and analytics for determining player similarity in Major League Baseball.

Nov 8, 2019

Optimization in SAS: Results

It's time to execute the model and examine the results from proc optmodel.

Jan 23, 2014