Fisher Baseball
So I’ve been spending much of my free time lately working on a site I call Fisher Baseball. Fisher Baseball is a web app that provides users with some unique visualizations of baseball statistics allowing readers to get a better indication of current and trending performance of their favorite hitters and pitchers. The technology that powers Fisher Baseball is Ruby on Rails. In the past I’ve blogged about Gameday API, an open source library that I wrote which allows you to read and process data from Major League Baseball. The Fisher Baseball site is fueled by that library, meaning its data is provided through Gameday API. Some of the other technologies powering Fisher Baseball include jQuery for JavaScript, MySQL for data storage, and charts are created on the client-side using the JavaScript charting package High Charts.
If you are a fan of baseball or even someone who just likes to see data visualized I encourage you to visit the site and play around with some of the reports. You can get individual player summary pages, team pages, and single game pitcher performance pages. If you think of something that you feel would be a useful addition to the site, contact me and let me know. The best way to contact me is usually through Twitter, http://twitter.com/tfisher
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