{"63653":{"#nid":"63653","#data":{"type":"event","title":"The Foundation of Sports Analytics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESports analytics continues to become more widely accepted as a tool to help build a competitive advantage. While gaining traction, sports analytics has continued to advance with increased scope, detail, and sophistication. To keep up with today\u2019s elite sports analytics programs and to remain competitive, sports teams and their staff members need to build a solid foundation for their own analytics program. There are three important inter-related building blocks that all teams \/ staff \/ analysts, no matter the size, level, sophistication, or financial resources should understand to be successful:\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EData Management\u003C\/strong\u003E: The science of acquiring, moving, organizing, cleaning, and connecting fragmented data into a form that enables deeper analysis.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnalysis\u003C\/strong\u003E: Discovering and monitoring metrics, through the use of mathematics\/statistics, that describe team performance, behavior, strategy, value, or success.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVisualization\u003C\/strong\u003E: Presentation of data\/metrics\/results in an interactive visual form for fast exploration, understanding, and action.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKevin Goodfellow is the founder of Sports Data Hub, a company focusing on pro sports data solutions. He has 16+ years of analytics experience in a wide range of industries, for companies large and small. For the last 10+ years he has provided Data Warehousing consulting specializing in Data Architecture and Data Integration. He is a graduate of Cal Poly and the University of Colorado, earning B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering. Early in his career, Kevin was a systems engineer for Boeing in Seattle, working with big data while designing, analyzing, and flight-testing commercial aircraft landing gear systems.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESports analytics continue to become more widely accepted as a tool to help build a competitive advantage. To be successful, there are three important inter-related building blocks that all teams\/staff\/analysts should understand.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Guest speaker Kevin Goodfellow, founder of Sports Data Hub"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2011-01-18 12:42:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:53:48","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-01-19T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-01-19T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-01-19T17:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-01-19 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-01-19 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-01-19 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ti.gatech.edu\/","title":"Tennenbaum Institute Web site"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.sportsdatahub.com\/","title":"Sports Data Hub"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ti.gatech.edu\/basole\/seminar\/sportsanalytics\/","title":"CS\/ISyE 4801: Sports Analytics"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"233","name":"Logistics"},{"id":"167437","name":"sports analytics"},{"id":"1727","name":"tennenbaum institute"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rahul.basole@ti.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ERahul Basole\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Tennenbaum Institute\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stasko@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJohn Stasko\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}