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Creating an Interactive Statistical Scouting Dashboard with R: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this article, we'll create an interactive sports dashboard using R and Shiny. If you've ever been curious about how to transform raw data into something that's not only informative but also genuinely engaging, this is for you.

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2024 League of Ireland Player Profiles

Learning new skills through the 2024 League of Ireland Premier Division Season

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2024 League of Ireland in Review

Learning new skills through the 2024 League of Ireland Premier Division Season

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UEFA Conference League Exploratory Data Analysis Tutorial

A tutorial of exploratory data analysis (EDA) through my love for Shamrock Rovers F.C. and their journey so far in 2024-2025 Uefa Conference League

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Basic Data Scraping and Visualisation Tutorial

A tutorial of data scraping and visualising through my love for Shamrock Rovers F.C. and their journey so far in 2024-2025 Uefa Conference League.

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Simple Athlete Monitoring Dashboard Tutorial

A tutorial for building a simple Athlete Monitoring Dashboard by a complete beginner

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Statistical Methods for Detecting Performance Changes in Athletes

Single-subject statistical methods are crucial for evaluating performance changes in individual athletes, especially when working with smaller groups or limited data. Practitioners should move away from relying solely on group-level statistics or subjective assessments.

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A Follow-Up Guide to Building an Athlete Monitoring Dashboard

In this guide, we'll follow on from my last post on the process of creating a Shiny application to visualize sample GPS data. All the necessary files can be found at the end of this article.

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A Beginners Guide to Building a Comprehensive Shiny Dashboard for GPS Data Visualization

In this guide, we'll walk through the process of creating a Shiny application to visualize sample GPS data. This app will include interactive charts and a styled data table. By following these detailed steps, you'll learn how to set up and deploy a Shiny app on Shinyapps.io.

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Player Performance in the League of Ireland Premier Division 2022-2024

Ranking the top 20 players based on performance metrics in the League of Ireland Premier Division 2022-2024.

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Player Performance in the League of Ireland Premier Division 2024

Ranking the top 25 players based on performance metrics in the League of Ireland Premier Division 2024.

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`worldfootballR` Tutorial: Analysing League of Ireland with Fotmob Data

The Greatest League in the World!

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StatsBombR Tutorial: Comparing Player Shots and Goals and Shots and Key Passes per 90 in the Champions League and UEFA Euros

Stay Curious!

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StatsBombR: A tutorial on how to use the StatsBombR package to analyse football data."

All credit for this tutorial goes to StatsBomb and the webinar they recently hosted which went through this code. This tutorial is a step-by-step guide on how to use the StatsBombR package to analyse the 2024 Copa America data.

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EURO 24 Web Scraping: A tutorial of scraping EURO 24 Stats from FBRef by a complete beginner!

I've no doubt that this can be done more efficiently than I have done it but this is what I have learned so far. I hope this helps in some way and if you are a more experienced R user, I would love to hear your feedback on how I can improve this process - feel free to reach out to me.

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R for Data Science Exercises: Quarto Formats

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R for Data Science Exercises: Quarto

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R for Data Science Exercises: Base R

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R for Data Science Exercises: Iteration

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R for Data Science Exercises: Functions

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R for Data Science Exercises: Web Scraping

Web scraping involves programmatically extracting data from websites.

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R for Data Science Exercises: Hierarchical Data

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R for Data Science Exercises: Arrow

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R for Data Science Exercises: Databases

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R for Data Science Exercises: Spreadsheets