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the Bulls announcers are searching for anything to say while the Celtics lead by 35 with 5 to go. Bill Cartwright just listed every state and country he has relatives in

So far this season, Luka is using a _lot_ more possessions than anybody else. Interesting to see LaMelo using 5% fewer possessions than he did last year too, curious to see if that'll hold up

I released an all new billmill.org/nba/ built on the ashes of the old site and the new data from github.com/llimllib/nba... It now lets you annotate the graph directly on the site and export it as a png with a shareable URL, ex: billmill.org/nba/shooting...

still all open-source, available at github.com/llimllib/ste... The site pulls parquet data from my CDN at load time instead of needing to be rebuilt regularly, which I think is a neat feature If you have an idea for a graph that you'd like to see, definitely let me know!

Experimenting with rotation charts

Experimenting with rotation charts

All this data is available in one duckdb file, which is a front for a set of parquet files: duckdb basketball-data.billmill.org/nba/nba.duckdb The code and github actions for downloading the data is at github.com/llimllib/nba_data

This bit in @jonbois.bsky.social 's video on the Nolan Ryan vs Robin Ventura fight, where he flips the scatterplot sideways, is another transcendant data visualization win for a man who ought to be universally considered a data visualization pioneer youtu.be/p6gXBCvf8q0?...

"...and there's always a y axis"

It had been 10 years since I did a "Solving Sol", and for some reason I got the idea to do one this morning. You can play around with it at llimllib.github.io/solving-sol/... if you're so inclined

follow @sollewitt.bsky.social if you want to get art in your feed, I don't run the feed I just enjoy it

Goals scored so far this world cup, by age of player

My brother asked me about average world cup squad heights, so I could hardly help myself. Turns out that Netherlands vs. Japan is only the 7th largest height differential game we'll see in the group stages; Bosnia vs Qatar is the largest

Austria is bumped way up by their 6'9" (205cm) backup goalkeeper Florian Wiegele: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian... I'm thinking about ways to have "effective height" that reflects the players that actually play, but it's tough without knowing who the players that will actually play is

I ran a test of container file system performance on Mac OS by the simple expedient of measuring `npm install` with a cold cache. github.com/llimllib/con... Orbstack did shockingly well, paying basically no performance tax whatsoever for running in a container. I've not previously used it

a heavy performance tax when npm, pip, or cargo need to cross the filesystem boundary frequently.

I ran a test of container file system performance on Mac OS by the simple expedient of measuring `npm install` with a cold cache. github.com/llimllib/con... Orbstack did shockingly well, paying basically no performance tax whatsoever for running in a container. I've not previously used it

Leading causes of death among Children and Adolescents in the United States source: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... guns and cars are what kill kids

Interesting experience working with @jdx.dev : - I tried out aube and hit a bug - I created a discussion for the bug: github.com/endevco/aube... - Four minutes later, he/his bot/some combination replied that the bug had been fixed: github.com/endevco/aube... From my perspective, this was a great +

interaction, though a bit weird. Unbelievably quick response to what is a reasonably tricky report. This is much better than my somewhat similar, but much worse, experience with bun: I hit a bug that had been fixed by one bot, accidentally reverted by another, released broken, then fixed by a third

Raptors vs Cavs net points by player