Data Dialogue: Data Science in the NBA: A brief tour
Thursday, November 08, 2018
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
David Sparks, Basketball Analytics, Boston Celtics
Sponsor(s): Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Bass Connections-Information, Society & Culture, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Energy Initiative, Mathematics, Pratt School of Engineering, Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), and Statistical Science
As the volume and specificity of data describing the game of basketball has increased, so too has the importance of statistical modeling and incorporating that data into strategy and evaluation. This talk reviews the evolution of data in basketball and describes the nature of the job of a data scientist in the NBA.
Contact: Ariel Dawn
