References

The following is a list of all sources used to complete this report. The resources are organized by the type of source, note that a more formal bibliography is given in my references.bib file.

AI

• ChatGPT Usage

Articles/Blog Posts

• Calculating Point Shares (throughout the report)

• Examining the value of NHL Draft picks (for background info on previous work)

• How to read and write data from and to S3 bucket using R? (for putting data into an S3 bucket)

• How to work with remote Parquet files with the duckdb R package? (for more help putting data into an S3 bucket)

• NHL draft: What does it cost to trade up? (for background info on previous work)

• Non-linear Regression in R (to create the non-linear regression models)

• A quantile-quantile plot (for the QQ plots in the Model chapter)

• Reactable Documentation (used in the Transform and Model chapters)

• The Ultimate Guide to Deploying a Shiny App on AWS (massively helpful with the Dev Ops-related components of the Shiny app)

Books

• DevOps for Data Science (throughout the report)

• Happy Git and GitHub for the useR (throughout the report)

• Mastering Shiny (for the Shiny app)

• R for Data Science (2e) (throughout the report)

Papers

• DETERMINING THE VALUE OF NBA DRAFT PICKS USING ADVANCED STATISTICS (for background info on previous work in other sports)
• Improving NHL Draft Outcome Predictions using Scouting Reports (for the criteria used in the logistic model)
• MLB Rule IV Draft: Valuing Draft Pick Slots (for background info on previous work in other sports)
• Valuation of NHL Draft Picks using Functional Data Analysis (for background info on previous work; my report also took a very similar approach to the one taken in this paper)

Miscellaneous

• Create a gt display table output element for Shiny (for the Shiny app)
• Hockey Reference (for the data used in the report)
• NHL Draft Eligibility (for the rules of the NHL Entry Draft, was used in the Import chapter)
• The R Installation Manager (for installing R in the EC2 instance)

Stack Overflow/Forum Posts

• Dynamic Variable naming in r (used to create variables within for loops, starting in the Transform chapter)
• Read/Write parquet file from s3 using R (to store the data in S3)
• Show different feedback warnings depending on single user input R Shiny (for the Shiny app)
• Specifying column with its index rather than name (used to access specific columns within for loops, starting in the Transform chapter)