Tan
#rstats carver, @nflverse.com wizard, pumpkin engineer, easily nerdsniped, he/him. soccer @ teamworks intelligence, mentor @dslc.io.
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- food nerds in my skeeting circles: anyone do dry aging at home? am contemplating building a diy minifridge setup with a raspberry pi humidity/fan/temp controller
- Reposted by TanThere's a new tool from @ussoccer.com and @akeaswaran.me is here to tell you about it. Introducing Glass Onion, an Identifier Synchronization Tool www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/1/...
- Wandering out into -24C with my @rfortherestofus.com hat, thanks @dgkeyes.com!
- Reposted by TanLife's been extremely difficult lately, especially when your progress and efforts... feels under constant assessment. I made this to let myself code with no pressure. I'm calling it 'release.' A reminder that even in the darkest phases, there's light on the horizon. Messy Code: tinyurl.com/dy7zc2mz
- Reposted by TanIn the wake of FBref's defacto death, I saw a lot of posts suggesting alternate data sources. Unfortunately, many of them focus exclusively on men's soccer. To measure what options remain for woso, I conducted a survey of the most popular FBref alternatives. What I found is disappointing: 🧵
- this fucking sucks
- Utterly disastrous news for public access to soccer data and statistics. www.sports-reference.com/blog/2026/01...
- Reposted by TanLet’s go!!! 🚀 🏒 Teamworks has acquired Sportlogiq, the global leader in AI-powered hockey analytics. teamworks.com/blog/teamwor...
- tired: LLMs wired: robot vacuums. just got my first one and holy crap it is so cool
- Reposted by TanHappy 2026! 🎆 My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing. I’m soft-launching our Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, you can be an early supporter before the official launch Monday! patreon.com/DSLC #RStats #DataBS
- Reposted by Tan@libbyheeren.bsky.social is always telling us to work out loud so I'm going to spin up a thread about the soccer analysis work I've been poking around at. I'm a big supporter of the USL Super League / Gainbridge Super League and have been messing around with modeling playoff probabilities.
- Reposted by TanI calculated a soccer-specific chess rating for 4,400 online games between ~100 players' accounts Top 10: 1. Marten de Roon 2. Yussuf Poulsen 3. Antonee Robinson 4. Stefan de Vrij 5. Borna Sosa 6. Christian Pulisic 7. Michael Olise 8. Kevin Prince Boateng 9. N'Golo Kante 10. Josip Stanisic
- Reposted by Tanif tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
- Reposted by Tantest_that("Are you ready?", { expect_match(YOU, "watch out") expect_no_match(YOU, c("pout", "cry")) expect_no_error(telling_you_why()) expect_no_warning("Santa Claus" |> coming_to_town()) })
- Reposted by TanI just need 1 more dataset for #TidyTuesday 2025! Thank you so much to those of you who have submitted datasets! The submissions have allowed me to make progress on a long-planned huge maintainability and usability improvement for TT, coming in 2026!
- Reposted by TanI wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
- anyone else panicking over xgboost releasing a cran update last week that broke their legacy saved models? just lost like eight hours of my life strugglebussing a fix, it was awful, the code I used to fix it was awful, and i hate everything. might write about it later as therapy/closure #rstats
- Reposted by TanData science folks: Can you recommend any textbooks/classes/resources that you really enjoyed, or that you felt made a particular difference in upscaling your skills? Asking for a friend who has some use-it-or-lose-it professional-development funds to spend before the end of the year.
- Reposted by TanFifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/
- Randomly decided that it's time for Tantastic Food Takes - here's a thread of the top things I ate in London on my recent trip (featuring Donia, Gymkhana, Dishoom, Quality Chop House, Regency Cafe, and Singburi)
- Lechon with liver peppercorn sauce, Chicken Inasal with lemongrass/tom yum sauce from Donia, a modern Filipino restaurant (9.7 on my personal Beli score)
- Butter chicken and prawn curry from Gymkhana (9.5) with the teamworks soccer squad. Shut down that inner hipster voice that says the butter chicken is for mainstream noobs, this one is insanely good. Tasting menu is a little overkill though, just get a few dishes :)
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View full threadFollow me on Beli for more restaurant ratings and takes! beliapp.co/f2NY5I6yrDb
- Reposted by Tan-- WEEK 13 #NFL 🏈 Playoff Leverage -- Here you can see 1.) how the playoff probability of each team changes depending on whether they win or lose the next game, and 2.) the combined playoff leverage of the teams involved in each game, sorted by kickoff time.
- including a few days of travel recovery time into PTO planning is superb stuff - slept for 12+ hours when I got home from London and now casually unpacking and doing laundry and getting ready for the week is 10/10. alas, if only liverpool were not shit right now that would be excellent
