{"id":1579,"date":"2021-12-31T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wordpress\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:37:07","slug":"welcome-to-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/31\/welcome-to-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to 2022!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I for one am looking forward to 2022 after a couple of interesting, often challenging years affected my desire to generate interesting analytics and data visualizations. The less said the better – simply excited to get back to updating some existing visuals and adding a host of new ones.<\/p>\n

I’ll be doing a lot of work using the Exploratory<\/a> toolkit which keeps improving by the day. It is simply a great tool for handling large (or small) data sets from start to finish; I especially love it’s data wrangling capabilities.<\/p>\n

On the data source side, Retrosheet<\/a> and the Lahman database<\/a> will continue to feed my analysis and visuals; none of what I create would be possible without these great resources. Retrosheet data (used for game level and play level detail) is already updated through the 2021 season; part of this year’s plan is to add older years (pre-1955) to my local database. The Lahman data (season level) is typically available around February and I’ll be downloading it to my databases at that time.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for updates throughout 2022 – they should be a lot more frequent than the last two years. Happy New Year!<\/p>\n

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