Interesting video. It’s 1:37AM here and I’m researching sports analytics and this video popped up. I am a self taught developer that managed to change careers (diesel mechanic to web dev) but hope to pivot into data analysis this year (not necessarily sports just yet). I am particularly interested in sports analytics though and plan to move in this direction by doing projects and learning over time. Subbed.
Love this. I've been an App Developer for 30 years. Getting into the AI/ML Deep Learning and trying to have some fun with my favorite football team. I'd love to get a couple of interesting projections going. Engines have parts and systems as do Applications and even the math but we can break them down into smaller parts and the suddenly become easier to understand.
I have seen your scraping tutorials in Python, but in university (I’m studying statistics degree) I code mostly with R, so I’m focusing more on this language. I used to export fbref data to a csv and then I work with that. Now they eliminated that option and I don’t know where I can find free database or scrape it in R. Any help? Thank you!
I am about to graduate Computer Engineering, and I am planning on taking a Master's Degree in Data Science. As a student with currently not too much obligations, I have started a little journey as a preparation for Data Science master :) Currently I am planning on scraping the data from Transfermarkt for my favorite football club, and then I intend to use that data to create some models that will predict the final position of my club in the upcoming season. My question is... do you think something like that is doable? :'))) I mean, either way I will try it, but I would like to hear a more professional opinion. Amazing channel btw, you have just got yourself a fan :D Keep up with the good work!
I have completed basic python up to seaborn and practicing eda and with small projects and also for soccer i use mpl soccer libraries .From an economics student I know a little bit of statistics and probability .so i spend more time in coding .I am confusing that should i start sql or machine learning .I want to work as a football analyst
I would learn SQL first, and then move to machine learning. Sql should only take a month to 3 months to grasp so I'd learn that first then focus on machine learning
What Python Course would you recommend for beginners? I work with data in my daily job and know SQL but would like to add python to my tool box and use it in a sports performance analytics pipeline.
just for learning python i recommend either Angela Yu or Jose Portilla on udemy.com I'm also biased haha but my course is about learning python and learning football/soccer analytics at the same time mckay-s-site.thinkific.com/courses/football-analytics-course
Hi McKay. I work at a youth football club out in America and I see my future within the industry as being some sort of video/scouting analysis and as such am very interested in getting into the data side of things. My colleague at the football club sent me your twitter and channel here and mentioned that you are working on a "0 to 100" type of course for aspiring professionals? Is that true? Either way I massively enjoyed the video. I'm at the point where I'm having to re-teach myself maths before I touch coding, so a long way to go yet. Excited to see what other content you put out. Cheers.
Yes! I'm creating a football analytics in python course that will teach all of the fundamentals to advanced topics to help learn the data & coding side of things. I'll post updates about it regularly but hoping for a end of March early April release if all goes to plan
If you have 4 hours a day and never miss then no it will probably won’t take that long to get to a spot you feel comfortable in. Most people though don’t have that time haha so for the average person it will probably take around a year
Hello ! I’m data Engineer student. I’d like to Create an analytic web app football Ligue 1 (France) for my school project. I can’t find good free data. I want to get very specific data to make relevant analysis and data visualizations. Should i take your course ? It’s not a matter of monney but saving Time !
What Python Course would you recommend for beginners? I work with data in my daily job and know SQL but would like to add python to my tool box and use it in a sports performance analytics pipeline.
