NB This is a revamp of a previous post The World Bank is a great source of economic and social data. A couple of years ago, I used it to create a shiny app which still appears to work!
Earlier this year, the World Bank launched a new open data platform which collates more than 2000 indices from 40+ data sources many external to the World Bank
Game of the week West Ham 2-3 Tottenham The star of this week’s post, Christian Eriksen, gets involved in all three goals for Spurs
After six games, Manchester Utd. can already boast eight names on the scoresheet. In 42 games in 1993⁄4, Arsenal mustered just six
Top v Bottom Man City’s destruction of Crystal Palace ensured those two sides produced the biggest ever difference in Goals Scored after six games of a Premier League season, 21.
The ggplot2 package and its extensions dominate the R visualization landscape, particularly for static charts
It got me thinking about how rare was that combination of two ’g’s to start a word - at least in the English language. Luckily, there is a source on github extracted from an infochimps source
Not exactly a mind-blowing exercise, but a useful way to use a few techniques from the tidyverse
Game of the week Watford 0-6 Manchester City
Second time Man City have won by 5+ goals in consecutive games against same team. They have also done it Derby. Only achieved on two other occasions in English league top tier with WBA figuring twice: crushing local rivals, Birmingham, and suffering at the hands of Liverpool
Unfortunately, no video available so you’ll have to settle for this home-made Huddesfield v Leicester game!
A few weeks ago I did a post on the StatCan API
I have since come across the new cancensus package, a wrapper function for CensusMapper API, in beta and not yet available on CRAN . These has been developed by the Vancouver team at MountainMath featuring Jens von Bergmann. His blog, Mountain Doodles is well worth a read - and, usefully, includes his twitter feed
One of the delights of using blogdown to create blogs or websites is that it allows access to Hogo shortcodes which automatically create an HTML snippet based on the parameters you provide. You can even create your own, if you are up to it
Here are a few examples for use in RMarkdown. Check out the blogdown package and Hugo documentation for more detail
Youtube
I tend to use the vembedr package but this is an alternative
Game of the week Stoke City 2-2 Manchester United United’s first real test. Still look going forward but defensive frailties may be exposed by top opposition
It must be September - Kane starts scoring The first one was a bit of a fluke but he reaches the 80 goal mark at a younger age than any who have reached that level in fewer appearances
Game of the week A slightly fortuitous win for Manchester City. View the highlights with a Russian commentary
Arsenal leaking goals Arsenal have gone from edging a seven-goal thriller against Leicester to a pummelling at the hands of Liverpool, via an unhappy trip to Stoke. Over this period, they have conceded eight goals. How does that stack up over any three game stretch for them or any other team.
Round 2
Not so many shocks in Round 2.
Three teams remain with 100% records. Manchester United have looked the most impressive and it is not until week 8 that they meet any of the five teams that finished above them last year.
Huddersfield manager David Wagner will probably just be grateful to have six points in the bag so soon and Tony Pulis will be looking to put his feet up even earlier than usual as his WBA teams tend to do once they reach the 40 point safety level
Round 1
Well we’re back with an exciting start to the new season. Manchester United turned in their best performance in years and Huddersfield had a dream return to the top tier. Some things remain the same though with Dele Alli conning Shelvey into a dismissal and Liverpool conceding from corners
Game of the Week
Arsenal and Leicester swapping blows with the Gunners emerging victorious