Data Science Final: Baseball

Samantha Widman
12/9/17

How it started:

  • Professor (Dr. Salinas) reached out to me about doing sports analytics with the baseball team
  • Added 3 new people to our group

Who does what:

  • Two of the guys are working on creating 2 apps compatible with IOS and Android.
  • One app will serve as a booking mechanism for pitching data
  • The other app will serve as a booking mechanism for hitting data
  • Another girl and myself have used R Markdown to produce the statistics that the coaches specifically want.

How it works:

  • Once the data is collected in the app, the coach will hit submit
  • The data comes to my email (haven’t figure out if this is exactly how this will work yet.. Trying to get it automated is hopeful outcome)
  • The data is loaded into R Studio and is then run through the baseball statistics program.

Pitching Data:

How this class has helped:

  • Data Camp teaching me how to program in R
  • What has helped me the most is the DPLYR package and GGPLOT2 package.