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Open Source – Sports Data Management
Sports Data Hub is sponsoring an open source project to develop a sports data management system for a number of sports (baseball, basketball, football, soccer, hockey, and others) based on Hadoop technologies. For those that aren’t familiar with Open Source projects, they are a collaborative volunteer effort to create software that can be used openly [...]
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Three challenges facing sports analytics leaders
If you’ve watched my MIT Sports Analytics presentation video (you can watch it on the video page here too) you’ll remember the three main challenges that leading franchises are trying to tackle… Width, Depth, and Speed. WIDTH Width in this context is the concept of data diversity. Width describes the desire to incorporate many different [...]
Read More...Holy Grail : A single software package that does all analytics tasks…
In my interactions with sports folks I get a range of really good questions (I also ask my fair share). The single most common question I get asked is “Is there a single software package that we can buy that will do all the analytic stuff” People have an understandable desire for a single ‘thing’ [...]
Read More...Beyond Moneyball: The Rapidly Evolving World of Sports Analytics
Sports Data Hub is honored to be mentioned in this three part series by Ben Alamar and Vijah Mehrotra. It gives a good overview of the state of sports analytics from the statistical perspective with a nod to Data Management and data architecture. Article: Beyond ‘Moneyball’ The rapidly evolving world of Sports Analytics – Part [...]
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