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I was looking over my hopeless hoard of bookmarks the other day and decided to make it a little more useful by curating my favourites into a more evergreen list of recommended reading/watching. Enjoy! tanho.ca/recs

REMINDER: Interested in performing research using SkillCorner data and having the chance to present your findings on stage at the 2027 ASI Summit? To be considered, submit your proposal by 11:59 PM CT on Friday, October 23rd. For more information, visit: americansoccerinsights.com/call-for-pro...

I gave a Keynote presentation at the #EARL2026 conference yesterday talking about the need for *people* while we’re all excited about AI. People and communities have always been important in open-source but I think they’re even more important now. github.com/MikeKSmith/E...

The 2027 Big Data Bowl hackathon is live! It's a big entrypoint for people looking to get into sports analytics and tracking data.

I came away with similar AI-anxiety after conf this year: in the tradeoff between craft and outcomes, people care about THEIR craft and are willing to AI the outcomes of stuff they don't care about at craft depth. Since interests don't overlap, everyone deals with AI slop in their craft 🫠

I aspire to the gloriousness of @travisgerke.bsky.social’s talk-giving outfit

loving this talk by @kellybodwin.com - real, structured, domain-specific projects are so much more helpful for learning R programming than token example datasets. really similar to what I wanted from a beginner book tanho.ca/posts/2024-1...

Dammit Wes I’m not ready for the feels this early in the morning 😭

family photo

lol ggsql continuing the support for both the -ise/-ize endings in “visualize/visualise”

enjoying the new options for pimping your #positconf2026 nametag, these ribbons are fun!

Didn’t realize it at the time but apparently I booked myself a flight connection where I landed at 7:45 and the next flight started boarding at 7:51. More the miracle is that the first flight a) was on time b) landed at a gate five minutes walk away to the next gate. Praise be to the plane gods!

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝟐.𝟎 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 🇪🇺🇺🇸 Following the success of the first edition, PySport and @skillcorner.bsky.social are inviting the analytics community to work with open-source 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 (including body pose data) and 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 to turn new ideas into open-source projects with real value.

can confirm apparently minnesota is canadian

Some longer form thoughts on setting up a dry-aging fridge and on my first dry-age tanho.ca/posts/2026-0...

Some longer form thoughts on setting up a dry-aging fridge and on my first dry-age tanho.ca/posts/2026-0...

The American Soccer Insights Summit is back for 2027. The Summit will be held at Rice University on March 26th and 27th, during a FIFA men's international break window. Registration is now open: americansoccerinsights.com/registration/

this is awesome, feels like a worthy successor to the OG atrebas post

Ok this is very good

I'm starting a new newsletter. Yeah, I know, another newsletter. This one isn't about soccer though... it's about YOU 🤯 "The Post-Match Report" will release weekly and contain links, analysis, and updates on everything happening in soccer analytics. Publishing on @leaflet.pub. More info 👇

just so everyone knows, we're in an alternate timeline bc in the original timeline, the red card stood and the usmnt lost, so some rando asked "what if balo played", went back in time, caused this whole mess, and is currently discovering that while timelines are mutable, outcomes are not

That black hole in the left halfspace is Norway’s biggest achievement here

yknow how after unusually good performances athletes get special doping tests? We should test this ref for financial doping

Mbappe audibly laughing in dude’s face

if you're into J-League or this World Cup has made you interested in Japanese football, follow Ryo

🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

I DID IT. THANK YOU CANADA 🇨🇦 1-0

Debating on posting we’re going to pens and then someone scores a goal immediately after I post this.

Ohhh my fucking god

BBC News went live to Cabo Verde and then Cabo Verde scored a goal. Absolute scenes.

I can’t wait for Saudi Arabia and Cape Verde to advance as first and second place from this group

NEW: Hudl Statsbomb Release Free Data for Five Top Women's Leagues www.hudl.com/blog/statsbo...

{beekeeper} 0.5.0 is available on GitHub! It currently generates documented #RStats functions for every endpoint described in an OpenAPI definition doc. Watch for 0.6.0 in July! @returns documentation, example-driven testing, and hopefully response parsing (with {tibblify}). beekeeper.api2r.org

In memoriam Tomáš Kalibera (1978–2026). www.r-project.org/doc/obit/tom...

even in 1858 they knew to only use radial bar charts for seasonal comparisons, how did we get that so wrong in the last 150 years

if I wrote tanstack it would never have had these problems, how dare they besmirch my name like that

Ottawa native here: this is 1000% in line with my experience. What’s worse is that the overwhelming majority of speed cameras in Ottawa are set up in front of school zones, it’s not even like it’s policing major arteries where traffic is expected to be moving at 80km+ per hour

📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

i had the best time making these silly little pelicans this weekend 🤩 i present: ✨The Pelifont✨

Open your heart to joy and to the Ottawa Senators

FTN is partnering with the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center to provide advanced charted data to students to help prepare them for a career in sports data and analysis. Special thanks to @stat-ron.bsky.social for being a leader in this partnership.