R in Sports Analytics: NFL Big Data Bowl & Analyzing Tracking Data

Wednesday, November 10, 12:00pm - 1:00pm (EST)

Time shown in-04:00 America, New York

NFL Big Data Bowl & Analyzing Tracking Data
Presentation by Thompson Bliss

Analyzing Tracking Data:
Sports tracking data (location-based x/y coordinates of every player and the ball) is a new source of information that allows researchers to perform more complex analyses than they could with traditional sports data. The Big Data Bowl is an NFL data competition designed to spur insights in Next Gen Stats, the league’s player tracking data. This presentation will give background about the Big Data Bowl and how to analyze the NFL tracking data in R.

Speaker Bio:
Thompson Bliss is a Data Scientist for the National Football League. He completed his master’s degree in Data Science at Columbia University in the City of New York in December 2019. At Columbia, he worked as a graduate assistant for a Sports Analytics course taught by Professor Mark Broadie. He received a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Astronomy at University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2018.

Agenda:
> Introduction to NFL Big Data Bowl
> Tracking Data Overview & Demo
> Q&A / Open Discussion

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Presentation by Thompson Bliss

Analyzing Tracking Data:
Sports tracking data (location-based x/y coordinates of every player and the ball) is a new source of information that allows researchers to perform more complex analyses than they could with traditional sports data. The Big Data Bowl is an NFL data competition designed to spur insights in Next Gen Stats, the league’s player tracking data. This presentation will give background about the Big Data Bowl and how to analyze the NFL tracking data in R.

Speaker Bio:
Thompson Bliss is a Data Scientist for the National Football League. He completed his master’s degree in Data Science at Columbia University in the City of New York in December 2019. At Columbia, he worked as a graduate assistant for a Sports Analytics course taught by Professor Mark Broadie. He received a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Astronomy at University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2018.

Agenda:
> Introduction to NFL Big Data Bowl
> Tracking Data Overview & Demo
> Q&A / Open Discussion https://rstudio.zoom.us/j/98444787941?pwd=SGMzNDNrVVJxV21tRUQwUkhXYkc5Zz09 false MM/DD/YYYY 30 OPAQUE aKHNCcebtzjkzVhQGmnG134315

https://rstudio.zoom.us/j/98444787941?pwd=SGMzNDNrVVJxV21tRUQwUkhXYkc5Zz09

Rachael Dempsey, rachael@rstudio.com

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