romellogoodman

Im on my second Bantam tools next draw and love it. Having made a similar transition from generative art to printmaking with a risograph and drawing with a pen plotter; I love the slow physical process of using them.

I added an example to the readme but generally speaking this framework is pretty agnostic and you can use the x, y coordinates in each line with any library

Added to the readme but here is a demo https://codesandbox.io/s/flow-field-demo-kkzmg

Dang. A really nice write up too!

Do you think you'll run again?

Great place to work! I used to intern in the D.C. office.

Besides scores, what other data would you look for?

That makes sense. I feel like the more granular and real time you can get, the better

Yeah i feel like obtaining historical data will be easy but staying up to date is the real challenge

Yeah thats what I was thinking. A rest api to interface with all of the data

Sounds good. What type of data would you want to get from a sports data api?

What type of data would you be looking for?

What time of data are collecting in your system if you don't mind me asking

No I have not. But is there any way for them to know if a fact was copied from them or not? If Steph Curry made 10 out of 11 field goals in a game. How would they know if I watched the game and found that data out or looked on their website?

Yeah thats what I was thinking, a very low entry point. I don't see any problems associated with only charging $15-25/month to access the data.

One thing that I have been wondering is, how do I get away with using the data without the leagues intervening? Or do they not own the data because the stats are publicly accessible

So stats and meta data such as weather, location, and time are what you would look for?

That's what I was thinking. I'm sure live games you have to manually enter but other than that it can be automated. And I really want to help mobile developers and developers in general. There are some great apps that can be built out there. They just need data access.

Thank you for your comment. It is very true.

APIs allow anyone to request and use the data without have to host all of the data. At least thats what I was thinking.

Do they have a publicly available api though? It seems like you have to contact a sales rep just to get access.

That's what I was thinking. The easiest way to beat them would be price and developer experience. The price tag of the data is a little pricey and the docs seem hard to understand.

What are the biggest short comings you've found with the service?

Seems like what I was looking for but I wonder how robust their data is.

I never thought of this. What other data platforms are out there and what is the most popular or widely used in your opinion?

I would be doing the collection myself and making the data available.