http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron TCB All Semester Long. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:26:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 've been working all weekend on putting down a solid visualization of baseball games that gives an informative overview of exactly what happened in a game in the least amount of space available. I want to give a variety of ways to view a game in order to get the ... http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron/2010/02/28/workin-on-some-vis/ OK this is another post that is more for my own future sanity than anything else. This has been a huge pain in the ass for me many times and I want to document the steps I took to get this working. First, this is a good general overview http://cd34.com/blog/programming/python/mysql-python-and-snow-leopard/ So I downloaded/installed ... http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron/2010/02/15/getting-mysqldb-up-and-running-on-snow-leopard-with-mamp/ So I have been doing a lot of research about the data I'm going to need for thesis, and where I should get this. The two main sources of data I am looking at are Retrosheet, which I've previously mentioned extensively, and the unofficial MLB xml sources which are used ... http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron/2010/02/13/considering-baseball-data-api/ Super Simple Prototype for Thesis. Game data for MLB seasons 1952-2008 acquired from the site retrosheet.com, parsed into CSV then MySQL formats, read by PHP and converted to XML, then read into openFrameworks. The size of the ring denotes the length of an inning, the blue represents the home team and the ... http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron/2009/12/30/simple-thesis-prototype/ Here are a couple of CV Prototypes I've done in school. This semester has been a really big challenge for me. I feel like I learned a lot but at the same time wasn't able to put the time and effort I wanted into any of my projects, so most ... http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron/2009/12/30/some-recent-work/ After a LOT of work/heavy lifting with C++, audio timing and beat spacing, I finally am relieved to have a sizeable prototype for thesis that is a big step towards my intended project. It may not seem like a lot in the form I'm presenting it, but it involved a ... http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron/2009/11/29/prototypeuser-test-for-thesis/ I've begun to dig into the Retrosheet database that I recently acquired (see previous post) and have started to plan out a basic format for parsing the immense amount of data into a readable, usable XML format that will let me retrieve game data in a simple, direct way. In order ... http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron/2009/11/25/digging-into-the-data/ The first major challenge of my thesis project has been acquiring historical data, parsing it into a usable format (database), and then going through it and trying to make some sense of it. I'll try to go over some of the steps I took to get where I'm at (as ... http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron/2009/11/21/getting-the-baseball-data/ I've been doing a lot of thesis research for what seems like forever at this point. I've known from the start that I wanted to do something that I was really interested in both technically and conceptually (seems like an obvious thing but its very easy to get sidetracked by ... http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron/2009/11/21/my-thesis-project/ I recently ran into an issue that was a bit of a pain in the ass and I wanted to put it up here both to help anyone else out who runs into it and for my own reference. I have been doing a lot of data mining/visualization recently which requires ... http://www.vargatron.com/blogatron/2009/11/14/using-php-5-from-dreamhost-through-command-line/