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Short Course on
BASKETBALL DATA SCIENCE
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by Dr Marica Manisera (University of Brescia)
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DAY 1
14.15-17.00 Monday 25/11/2019 (AUEB New Building, Room T102, 1st Floor)
Lecture 1
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Data science in basketball
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Basketball analytics: state of the art
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Basketball data
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Introduction to the R package BasketballAnalyzeR
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DAY 2
14.15-17.00 Tuesday 26/11/2019 (AUEB New Building, Room T102, 1st Floor)
Lecture 2
Basic statistical analyses using BasketballAnalyzeR (1/2)
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Pace, Ratings, Four Factors
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Graphical representations
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Variability analysis
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Inequality analysis
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DAY 3
15.15-18.00 Wednesday 27/11/2019 (AUEB Postgraduate Building, Room 609, 6th Floor)
Lecture 3
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Basic statistical analyses using BasketballAnalyzeR (2/2)
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Shot charts
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Discovering Patterns in data
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DAY 4
15.15-18.00 Thursday 28/11/2019 (AUEB Postgraduate Building, Room 901, 9th Floor)
Lecture 4
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Finding groups in data
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Assignment of exercises to solve
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Bibliography
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Paola Zuccolotto and Marica Manisera, Basketball Data Science. With Applications in R. CRC Press, forthcoming.
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Marco Sandri, Paola Zuccolotto, and Marica Manisera (2019). BasketballAnalyzeR: an R package for the analysis of basketball
data. https://github.com/sndmrc/BasketballAnalyzeR -
Marco Sandri, The R package BasketballAnalyzeR, in: Zuccolotto P. and Manisera M., Basketball Data Science, forthcoming,
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Marica Manisera, Marco Sandri and Paola Zuccolotto (2019), BasketballAnalyzeR: the R package for basketball
analytics. Proceedings of the Conference Smart Statistics for Smart Applications (SIS 2019), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 19st-21st June 2019, 395 – 402.
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Course Details
The Course will be limited to 40 people. Register here.
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All participants must bring their own laptops fully charged with R and the R package BasketballAnalyzeR already installed.
How to install it: https://bdsports.unibs.it/basketballanalyzer/
For any problem, please write to basketball.analyzer.help@gmail.com
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All course participants will receive a certificate of attendance if they attend three out of the four sessions.
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