Sean Lahman | Database Journalist

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Updated with stats through 2013

Beta release of 2013 Lahman Baseball Database available

Updated with stats through 2013

My presentation from the 2013 SABR convention on how "big data" has transformed the baseball world, and why bigger changes are coming.

Baseball in the Age of Big Data

My presentation from the 2013 SABR convention on how “big data” has transformed the baseball world, and why bigger changes are coming.

Catching up with the engineers who invented digital cameras.

Digital Camera Pioneers

Catching up with the engineers who invented digital cameras.

My twenty-five year journey with Pete Rose.

My twenty-five year journey with Pete Rose.

Navy SEALs killed bin Laden, but it was data mining and analysis that found him.

How data and documents helped find bin Laden

Navy SEALs killed bin Laden, but it was data mining and analysis that found him.

Baseball

0January 9, 2014
The Summer Game

How a book that Roger Angell gave to Dick Young ended up on my bookshelf.
0December 11, 2013
How do you get to Cooperstown?

Visualizing the voting trajectories for 1000+ Hall of Fame candidates
0September 15, 2013
Aggressive defensive strategy in Pittsburgh

Radical shift has helped Pirates become contenders

Recent Projects

0January 1, 2013
The Great Lie of College Sports

More than 90% of “big money” college sports programs lose money
0June 21, 2012
Why preserving historical documents is important

Recent discovery demonstrates value of archives
0June 9, 2012
Remembering the fallen

For Memorial Day, I wrote a series of stories about local servicemen who gave their lives in World War II.

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The Pro Football Historical Abstract
by Sean Lahman
Winner of the 2008 Nelson Ross Award
for "outstanding achievement in pro football research and historiography."
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