{"id":457,"date":"2020-04-11T22:06:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T04:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puckpossessed.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2021-02-24T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:59:16","slug":"puck-possessed-biathlon-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/puck-possessed-biathlon-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Puck Possessed Biathlon #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the 5th issue of the Puck Possessed Biathlon series I decided not to use Tableau, but rather give R, R-Studio, Shiny and the ggplot2 package a go. It had been a while that I last used R, but after a few days of struggling, I think I got the basic principles back under control. Well, sort of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First I wrote a script that pulled data from the Biathlon API, for all women that participated in the IBU sprint world cups in the 2019-2020 season. More detailed writing on that process can be found here<\/a>, while the code is in my Github repository<\/a>. Now that I had the data to play with, I decided I wanted to build a Shiny App which allowed a viewer to select an athlete from a drop-down and then showed the skiing and shooting statistics plus some personal information about this athlete. The result can be found here<\/a>, but here is a screenshot to get the idea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The code can again be found on my github<\/a>, but note that for the Shiny app to run you’ll need to create your own Shiny account name, token and secret and put those in the code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was so much fun to play with R and Shiny that I think I’ll dive a bit deeper into that for the next issues of PP Biathlon. Of course they don’t look as slick as Tableau at this point, but I hope to improve my R\/Studio\/Shiny skills so they can look more polished than this first try. What I do like so far is the total control over all elements of the chart \/ visual, something that often bothers me when working with Tableau. We’ll see, I may stick with Tableau in the end, but the idea of being reliant on Tableau for keeping their Tableau Public servers up and running at a decent performance is bugging me lately, especially since I noticed some outages on a number of occasions. Tableau is still a wonderful product, and the fact they provide the free Public environment is great, but I like the control that the R environment gives me. Once I start figuring out how easy \/ hard it will be in the R environment to build connectivity between charts, we’ll see where it goes. But in the end there’s nothing wrong with being proficient in both Tableau and R!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay healthy, and home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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