sweepR

sweepR is a collection of functions that allow the scraping of curling tournament data from the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Installation

sweepR can be installed using:

remotes::install_github("jbrooksdata/sweepR")

Use

Each of the four currently available functions operate in the same way. "mens" "womens" and "mixed" represent the three groups of datasets available containing game-by-game player and team stats, player bios, and tournament standings.

For example:

load_standings("mixed")

This will return the standings (wins, losses, points scored, etc.) from the mixed doubles tournament.

Data

• Game-by-game stats for players and teams, player bios, and standings are available.
• Player, game, and team ID numbers provided for joins.
• Data was taken from the NBC Olympic API.
• Project inspired by Alyssa Longmuir's Twitch streams working with women's hockey data.

Other Notes

• Browse my Olympic curling data repo for raw CSVs and source code for the data scrapers.
• Check out some data viz created using data from this project.

References

• NBC Olympics data
• aklongmuir on Twitch and @alyssastweeting on Twitter