{"id":1205,"date":"2018-04-08T08:23:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T12:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wordpress\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2024-02-13T16:42:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T16:42:42","slug":"batting-explorers-updated-2017-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/2018\/04\/08\/batting-explorers-updated-2017-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Batting Explorers Updated Through 2017 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to share that the Batting Explorer visualization for the 2010s decade has now been updated with 2016 &amp; 2017 statistics. This ongoing project captures batting statistics at the season level for every major league batter, and visualizes them in a baseball card type of format, as seen below:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1149\" style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1149\" src=\"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/explorer_1-1024x602.png\" alt=\"Batting Explorer\" width=\"648\" height=\"381\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batting Explorer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A number of filters are provided to make it easy to browse across a wide range of attributes, including all of the major batting categories:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1152\" style=\"width: 807px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/explorer_4.png\" alt=\"Filters\" width=\"807\" height=\"717\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1152\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of my favorite aspects of the Batting Explorer is the ability to link to greater detail by clicking on a specific player card, which will transport you to the Baseball-Reference page for that player:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/baseball_ref_1-1024x712.png\" alt=\"baseball_ref_1\" width=\"648\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This project uses the Exhibit project software originally developed years ago as part of the MIT Simile project, as well as a lot of HTML &amp; CSS for styling purposes. <a href=\"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wordpress\/gallery\/batting-explorers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give it a try<\/a>, and thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to share that the Batting Explorer visualization for the 2010s decade has now been updated with 2016 &amp; 2017 statistics. This ongoing project captures batting statistics at the season level for every major league batter, and visualizes them in a baseball card type of format, as seen below: A number of filters are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[37,31],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batting-explorers","tag-37","tag-data-visualization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}