mbjoseph/ab-shrinkage

Code to generate slides about shrinkage for Analyze Boulder presentation

Partial pooling for NBA freethrows

This repository contains code to generate the slides for a presentation “Sporstcasters don’t get shrinkage” to Analyze Boulder on 2016-12-07.

Making the slides

The slides are produced from R Markdown (slides.Rmd), which requires that you have LaTeX, beamer, and the following R packages installed from CRAN:

install.packages(c("ggplot2", "tidyr", "dplyr", "rstan", 
                   "modeest", "rmarkdown", "viridis", "flux", 
                   "Lahman", "bayesplot", "devtools", "knitr"))

The basketball data are scraped using an in-development package bbr, which can be installed directly from GitHub using devtools:

devtools::install_github("mbjoseph/bbr")

Once the dependencies are satisfied, knit the document with:

rmarkdown::render("slides.Rmd")

If this runs successfully, you will see a pdf in the top level directory: slides.pdf.

I don’t want to make the slides, I just want to download them!

You can download the pdf here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18637425/ab-shrinkage-slides.pdf