Adventures in programming, data science, and baseball
Or: How Cocaína García’s Nickname Immediately Derailed Me When I downloaded Retrosheet’s November 2025 Negro Leagues data, my intention was to keep this project narrowly focused on exploring the data within that release, avoiding...
Baseball / Data Science / Negro League Baseball
by Colby · Published December 22, 2025 · Last modified December 23, 2025
Introduction Retrosheet’s second semi-annual release of 2025, posted on November 27, 2025, expanded its coverage of Negro League baseball statistics, especially with regards to the 1935 season. This is the first of a series...
For the final project of my EdX DSE 200X class, I downloaded Retrosheet’s Negro League Baseball dataset to analyze how Jackie Robinson’s MLB debut in 1947 affected Negro League Baseball. I looked at Negro...
In this project, I used a UN World Development Indicators dataset to analyze the importance of remittances (payments sent home by citizens working abroad) to the Honduran economy. I analyzed the data in a...
About:
L. Colby Bogie lives in Durham, NC, where he spends his time learning as much as possible about baseball, history, literature, politics, and anything else that strikes his fancy.
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Project JRogue, v0.1: A demo of a video game inspired by combining a JRPG-style party-building and job system with roguelike mechanics. Development has since been restarted with a significantly redesigned system of combat mechanics, but this demo remains as an early experiment. Created in Godot using GDScript. The Github repository for this project is publicly viewable here.