Data Management
The science of acquiring, moving, organizing, cleaning, and connecting fragmented data into a form that enables deeper analysis.
Are you able to keep track of all of your spreadsheets? Do you still have binders with critical information written in them? Can you find the information you need when you need it? Are you drowning in enormous amounts of data that you can’t manage? Think that you should be doing something about it, but don’t know where to start?
If so, you are not alone.
Data Management is an often ignored, overlooked, or undervalued piece of the analytics ecosystem. Data Management does not get a lot of attention, because it is not flashy, but the truth, is that good Data Management is the foundation of every successful analytics program. It represents about 75% of the effort and value associated with analytics programs and deserves more attention than it currently receives by the sports industry.
Approximately 90% of the work that statistical analysts have done in the past, is to gather, clean, and process the data they need as an input into their models and statistical processes. This work must be done before they do their statistical work, but since this skill is not typically an area of expertise for statistical analysts, it leads to wasted time, effort, and thus money…..all critical commodities in short supply. Think of how much more work analysts could do, and answers they could find, if they were free to work 100% of the time on their statistical modeling and not on data manipulation.
As it turns out, the elite programs have already figured out that Data Management skills are key to their success and spend appropriate amounts of resources on this core part of their program. Good Data Management skills allow them to handle the increasing sports data diversity (width), increasing data detail (depth), and the need to get results faster (speed). These Data Management skills are a big part of the reason why these teams have built up competitive advantages.
Sports Data Hub offers world-class expertise in the area of Data Management and has the experience and expertise to create a system that is adapted to your staff, technology skills, budget, and business style. While the options and choices for Data Management solutions can be overwhelming, Sports Data Hub makes it approachable and understandable, so that you can make the most informed decision.