Dennewitz

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matt dennewitz / product and development

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Work

Pitchfork, the most trusted voice in music

BeerGraphs, the first site to study analytics of beer

Saber Archive, the community-powered home of Sabermetric research

Balls & Strikes, an off-shoot experiment in streamlining and interlinking research on Saber Archive Home Runs API

Home Runs API, which uses live MLBAM play-by-play data to track home runs as they happen. This project is open source. open source

Home Runs API, which uses live MLBAM play-by-play data to track home runs as they happen. This project is open source.

playlist-to-vec

playlist-to-vec, a word2vec-based music recommendation engine powered by analyzing Spotify playlists.

baseball-pagerank

baseball-pagerank, an experiment in surfacing research through graph centrality rsd

rsd, which builds a database of record stores from Record Store Day participant data mlbam-utils

mlbam-utils, which facilitates customizable MLBAM event log ingestion homers

homers, an app that ingests live MLBAM play-by-play logs and emits home runs through a public-facing JSON API retrosheet-pitch-sequences

retrosheet-pitch-sequences, for extracting ball-strike counts seen in a pitch sequence (i.e., pass-through counts) from Retrosheet pitch sequences retrosheet-queries

retrosheet-queries, a cookbook of retrosheet recipes for those interested in exploring sabermetrics baseball-projection-schematics

baseball-projection-schematics, a toolkit for mapping baseball player projection CSV sources, which come in all shapes and sizes, to a unified format mlb-normalize-player-ids

mlb-normalize-player-ids, for combining and normalizing player identification tags from disparate sources

Just for fun, here are my Emacs themes. "Light" was created from a color palette taken from the final act in 2001, where David Bowman is in the colonial-style bedroom. 2001

Just for fun, here are my Emacs themes. "Light" was created from a color palette taken from the final act in 2001, where David Bowman is in the colonial-style bedroom. colonial-style bedroom

Just for fun, here are my Emacs themes. "Light" was created from a color palette taken from the final act in 2001, where David Bowman is in the colonial-style bedroom.

Mozfest (2015), London

Trei Brundrett, Michael Donohoe, and I lead a group discussion on the platformification of the internet by social networks from our individual experiences: through a platform site, Vox; through a print-first subscription-minded publication, The New Yorker; and through an large advertising-supported (then) indie, Pitchfork. Halifax Pop @ CASH Music Summit (2015)

I discussed how principles from open source software can guide musicians toward reclaiming ownership of their platform. including opening their data, learning how to use their data, participating in open platforms like CASH, and pushing blockchain technology as an open ledger verifiable by any device rather than closed-platform DRM options. Mozfest (2014), London

BackboneConf 2014, BostonI talked at length

I talked at length about how Pitchfork and Backbone met and how love filled the air. Grind, ChicagoA little background

A little background on how my small development team accomplishes great things

Changes since 2015-01-27T03:16:47

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Changes since 2014-12-30T17:00:21

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Balls & Strikes

Balls & Strikes, an experiment in streamlining Saber Archive and interlinking research

Nothing at the moment, but I'm game if you are.

Recent talks

Mozfest 2014, London

I talked with Matt LeMay and Erin McKeown about creating an open data standard for musicians. We formed a three-headed perspective monster, covering how such a standard would directly benefit musicians, journalists, and the world at large. We also discussed the inputs and outputs for such a system, and the need for stronger rights and media management tools for artists.
Trei Brundrett, Michael Donohoe, and I led a session about CMS culture at our companies. Trei covered Vox's much-discussed Chorus platform. Michael discussed his experience with WordPress as a powerful platform that keeps a low barrier to entry without dropping its standards. I discussed Pitchfork's internal story builder application. We covered the pit- and pratfalls in CMS development, but also the successes we've had in making content tooling a Patriotic Duty.

I talked with Matt LeMay and Erin McKeown about creating an open data standard for musicians. We formed a three-headed perspective monster, covering how such a standard would directly benefit musicians, journalists, and the world at large. We also discussed the inputs and outputs for such a system, and the need for stronger rights and media management tools for artists.

Trei Brundrett, Michael Donohoe, and I led a session about CMS culture at our companies. Trei covered Vox's much-discussed Chorus platform. Michael discussed his experience with WordPress as a powerful platform that keeps a low barrier to entry without dropping its standards. I discussed Pitchfork's internal story builder application. We covered the pit- and pratfalls in CMS development, but also the successes we've had in making content tooling a Patriotic Duty.

BackboneConf 2014, Boston, wherein I talked about how Pitchfork and Backbone met, and how we're still going steady years later. Slides soon.

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