From the monthly archives:

December 2008

How I make my own fun in the snow

December 31, 2008

Photo by George Mandis
Some people like to make snow angels, but I’ve always been a bigger fan of leaving outlines of my body on the hoods of cars to make it look like a snowy hit-and-run.  Normally I dont get much of an opportunity to partake in this childish hobby, but this December Portland has [...]

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Hoop Data Dreams, Addendum

December 19, 2008

For those of you intrigued by my previous post discussing the goldmine of basketball data available at databaseBasketball.com I’ve taken the liberty of uploading a zipped SQL file so you can play around with the data in a database. Now you don’t have to go through the annoying process of creating the tables and [...]

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Hoop Data Dreams

December 14, 2008

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
Being both a basketball junky and glutton for mining publicly available data, it makes sense that I would be gaga over Basketball Reference’s recent revamp launched at databaseBasketball.com. Specifically though, I’m more excited that you can now download the statistics and play around with them yourself.

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