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Do any of these footballing rivals follow each other on social media?
Recap In the last post we got to the stage where we had the data for each club’s league positions since 1958/59 in a Google sheet. The next step is to visualise this data in a Shiny app. Shiny lets you create visualisations that your users can interact with, and they have slightly different code … Read More “My First Shiny App Part II: The Shiny code itself” »
Here is my first Shiny app! Shiny lets you create interactive visualisations in R. It’s a big step forward from the static visualisations we have done thus far. R has a fairly steep learning curve at the beginning. It took me several months and a DataCamp course before I began to know what I was … Read More “My First Shiny App: See Where Your Team Ranks in the Football Pyramid” »
Boxing Day is the most wonderful time of year for football fans. In Britain we have a traditional busy calendar of fixtures the day after Christmas. Television dictates that the matches no longer all kick off at 3pm on 26th December but this year we have 16 of the 20 Premier League clubs playing today. So … Read More “Where Does Your Team Rank in the Boxing Day League table?” »
On Wikipedia’s page for the 2015/16 Premier League, it has a matrix table of results.
It shows you all the results for each team, home and away against each other.
For example, if you look at Arsenal on Row 1, they beat Aston Villa 4-0 at the Emirates but lost their home match against Chelsea 0-1.
