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my stats update is all broken and confused, because the NBA has somehow listed Devin Booker as playing for both the Suns and the Thunder last night, with him listed as scoring 1 point in 0 minutes for OKC

my updater handles it now, but they still haven't fixed it! I wonder how long his point for OKC will last. They'll print out his Hall of Fame plaque and the dude won't know that Booker didn't play for the Thunder for one game, scoring a free throw against his teammates www.nba.com/stats/player...

the Bulls announcers are searching for anything to say while the Celtics lead by 35 with 5 to go. Bill Cartwright just listed every state and country he has relatives in

So far this season, Luka is using a _lot_ more possessions than anybody else. Interesting to see LaMelo using 5% fewer possessions than he did last year too, curious to see if that'll hold up

I released an all new billmill.org/nba/ built on the ashes of the old site and the new data from github.com/llimllib/nba... It now lets you annotate the graph directly on the site and export it as a png with a shareable URL, ex: billmill.org/nba/shooting...

still all open-source, available at github.com/llimllib/ste... The site pulls parquet data from my CDN at load time instead of needing to be rebuilt regularly, which I think is a neat feature If you have an idea for a graph that you'd like to see, definitely let me know!

Experimenting with rotation charts

Experimenting with rotation charts

All this data is available in one duckdb file, which is a front for a set of parquet files: duckdb basketball-data.billmill.org/nba/nba.duckdb The code and github actions for downloading the data is at github.com/llimllib/nba_data

This bit in @jonbois.bsky.social 's video on the Nolan Ryan vs Robin Ventura fight, where he flips the scatterplot sideways, is another transcendant data visualization win for a man who ought to be universally considered a data visualization pioneer youtu.be/p6gXBCvf8q0?...

"...and there's always a y axis"

It had been 10 years since I did a "Solving Sol", and for some reason I got the idea to do one this morning. You can play around with it at llimllib.github.io/solving-sol/... if you're so inclined

follow @sollewitt.bsky.social if you want to get art in your feed, I don't run the feed I just enjoy it

Goals scored so far this world cup, by age of player

My brother asked me about average world cup squad heights, so I could hardly help myself. Turns out that Netherlands vs. Japan is only the 7th largest height differential game we'll see in the group stages; Bosnia vs Qatar is the largest

Austria is bumped way up by their 6'9" (205cm) backup goalkeeper Florian Wiegele: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian... I'm thinking about ways to have "effective height" that reflects the players that actually play, but it's tough without knowing who the players that will actually play is

I ran a test of container file system performance on Mac OS by the simple expedient of measuring `npm install` with a cold cache. github.com/llimllib/con... Orbstack did shockingly well, paying basically no performance tax whatsoever for running in a container. I've not previously used it

a heavy performance tax when npm, pip, or cargo need to cross the filesystem boundary frequently.

I ran a test of container file system performance on Mac OS by the simple expedient of measuring `npm install` with a cold cache. github.com/llimllib/con... Orbstack did shockingly well, paying basically no performance tax whatsoever for running in a container. I've not previously used it

Leading causes of death among Children and Adolescents in the United States source: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... guns and cars are what kill kids

Interesting experience working with @jdx.dev : - I tried out aube and hit a bug - I created a discussion for the bug: github.com/endevco/aube... - Four minutes later, he/his bot/some combination replied that the bug had been fixed: github.com/endevco/aube... From my perspective, this was a great +

interaction, though a bit weird. Unbelievably quick response to what is a reasonably tricky report. This is much better than my somewhat similar, but much worse, experience with bun: I hit a bug that had been fixed by one bot, accidentally reverted by another, released broken, then fixed by a third