Baseball Data Wrangling with Vagrant, R, and Retrosheet

Description

In this course, you will learn:-

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• Vagrant and VirtualBox must be installed.
• Create a virtual Linux system and run it.
• The Chadwick software tools must be installed.
• Retrosheet files can be used to extract game and play-by-play baseball data.
• ggplot allows you to create graphs.

Syllabus:-

• Introduction
• Installing VirtualBox
• Installing Vagrant
• Creating a Project Folder
• Vagrant Up
• Directory Structure
• Downloading the Chadwick Software
• Installing the Chadwick Software
• The Retrosheet Files
• cwevent and cwgame
• Data Extraction
• Reading our data into R
• The Result Column
• The Date Column
• The Date Column Part II
• The Player Data Frames
• ggplot Crash Course
• Cumulative Home Run Plots
• Colors and Legend
• Project Description
• Data Extraction
• Reading the data into R
• The Date Column
• The Result and AB Columns
• The Player Data Frames
• The Plots
• The Four-Hundred Line
• The Marchi/Albert Book and Course Wrap-Up