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Re: Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized

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Post by awellis13 »

digitalmarks wrote: post #14
mdoerneman wrote: post #10

Very nice! Beautiful and very fast for the amount of data that is calculated on the fly. What technologies did you use? Also, did you have to pay license fees to display team and conference logos?

MVC3 + SQL Server + Mongo + custom software for the realtime calculations. All components (with the exception of the front-end) are highly abstracted enabling us to swap technologies (e.g. SQL Server to MySQL, Mongo to Memcached) quickly.

Yeah, I'd like to know about the process of showing team logos and the stats. Are you just scraping the data from somewhere, or do you have permission to use any of this data? I'm wanting to build and application similar to this for the NHL (if we have a season... har har...) but the licensing of big teams is scaring me away some.

Re: Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized

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Post by jrmoran »

jergason wrote: post #19

This is beautiful. What charting libraries are you using?

Here's the breakdown of charting libraries OP is using

* HighCharts http://www.highcharts.com/

* jQuery Sparklines http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/

* jQuery Knob http://anthonyterrien.com/knob/

Being a fan of data visualization myself, I find this work inspiring and would like to hear his thoughts on why those libraries over using either d3.js or Raphaël.

Re: Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized

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Post by pmahoney »

ojiikun wrote: post #18

Hah, read the title as "football, the sort you play with a round ball" and got rather excited. Only minor disappontment ensued when I realized you were talking about "handegg". ;) Still, I love this kinda stuff and have been pining for more creative, dynamic presentations of futbol stats. I wish anyone could explain to me why every darn mainstream coverage site has the same, boring chart of the same, boring dozen sta…

Football, a sport played on foot.
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