Books & Major Contributions

Spencer, Scott. Primary analyst and editor of The Real Madrid Way: How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet, written by Steven Mandis. BenBella Books, 2016.

Spencer, Scott. Data in Wonderland - Textbook for data storytelling. Columbia University. Last updated 2024.

Stan Community

Spencer, Scott. Recoded in Stan all examples from McElreath’s Statistical Rethinking. Widely used pedagogical resource in academia. Last updated 2019.

Gabry, Jonah, Ben Goodrich, and Scott Spencer. Stan Is Not an Acronym: Bayesian Solutions to Sabermetric Shortcomings. SaberSeminar, 2018.

Working Papers

Spencer, Scott. No One’s Replaceable: A Joint Model for Peace Amidst WAR. Last updated 2024 Oct 20.

Spencer, Scott. Estimating utility of called pitches. 2020 June 11.

Spencer, Scott. p( persuasion | data, analysis, storytelling ). Last updated 2020 March 07.

Spencer, Scott. Similarities between R and Python for data analysis. Last updated 2020 February 3.

Spencer, Scott. A physics and geometry-based, stochastic model for calls, swings, and contact. Last updated 2019 December 29.

Spencer, Scott. Locality of Baseball Data.

Spencer, Scott. Estimating impact of climate change on real property purchase price. Last updated 2019 July 28.

Technical Articles & Visualizations

Spencer, Scott. Contours in Batter Comparisons: A Trick Up the Sleeve. Baseball Prospectus, 2017.

Spencer, Scott. Ride Against the Flow. Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, 2019. Interactive version.

Software

Spencer, Scott. HSLuv: Converts HSLuv to RGB and Hex. Last updated 2020 March 30. R package version 0.0.1.

Spencer, Scott. ggSankeyGrad: A ggplot-based Sankey Graphic with Gradient Flows. R package, 2020.