data scientist figuring out philly sports
Philadelphia, PA
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Ladies and gentlemen, the 2024 Big Data Bowl #BigDataBowl
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🚨 Guide to Sports Analytics 📊
New design & we now cover 4! softwares in-depth (R, Python, Tableau, SQL). In total, links to 500+ tutorials, 250+ data sources, 125+ accounts to follow, 50 books, 40 cheatsheets, 40 papers & more. All in ONE place!! ⬇️
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Big Data Bowl success. You don't need to win to get a lot out of the experience, and you don't need to do A+++ work to learn. (Participate next year)
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NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/re…
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
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ESPN Reporting with @Ramonashelburne: The showdown of MVP frontrunners is off tonight: Sixers are ruling out Joel Embiid (calf) vs. Nikola Jokic and Nuggets. Embiid attempted to work out this morning, but team is taking a precautionary approach given density of recent schedule.
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Say what you will about skill level, and spotty officiating and that ugly ass neon orange ball but nothing NOTHING makes me lose my mind quite like the annual tent revival of the Gospel of rhe Quick Two that is tourney announcing.
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I regret to inform you that a Philly podcast put out a good article
"That [all in one advanced stats] play any role at all in the MVP discussion – deciding players’ legacies – is a travesty, and if we were to thoroughly dig into them, most would agree.
#Sixers | @MOConnor_NBA | @BodyBio
bit.ly/NBAMVPDebate
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THEM: i bet you there’s no way at all y’all can find a dumber final play than the last time y’all played the 49ers in the playoffs
THE COWBOYS:
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How did you get involved in the open-source community?
For @mrcaseb, it began with admiring #rstats visualizations and resulted in an array of sports analytics packages, tools, & resources.
Read about his story in today’s blog post, the path to {ggpath}!
posit.co/blog/the-path-to-gg…
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$100,000 is on the line, as is a trip to the Scouting Combine in Indy for an in-person 2023 #BigDataBowl
As in year's past, we're partnering with @kaggle.
Sign up and get the data here
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Expected PPR fantasy points per game on targets in the first three weeks. The distribution represents 10,000 random simulations of every target
