Good Data in Action

It’s been a long time since my last post, but things have really been cooking with Good Data and I’m happy to share our first “public project.” Public means that anyone can view the reports and go in and create their own reports from this sample data.

For the first public project, we’ve loaded historical Major League Baseball stats compiled by player and team going back to 1871. There’s a ton of info there and baseball fans should have a good time compiling lists of players from different eras or computing formulae for their fantasy baseball team.

Here is a report I created showing the top 50 “Wild Things” in the history of baseball. Wild Things are pitchers who have hit a lot of batters in their career. I couldn’t believe that there was a major league pitcher who hit 14% of batters faced! (If the report is cut off, try viewing this blog post on its own page.)

So if baseball’s your thing, click through and check it out…. There are a bunch of sample reports, but I’d really love to see the kinds of things you can come up with. There’s a ton of data in there it would be great to see what the community can generate. After all, this site is called Collaborative Analytics, right?