Of course, there was more going on at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference than a Soccer Analysts panel, and I will write about the other major events in this post.The level of interest in the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has grown exponentially since the days when it was hosted in a lecture hall at MIT’s […]
Time to kick off my review of the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference with the highlight of the conference from a soccer perspective: the Soccer Analytics session. In the space of three years, Soccer Analytics has grown from being shoehorned into an Emerging Analytics session in 2010 to a standalone session in 2012, hosted […]
Today is the day of the Soccer Analytics Panel at the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. There are some late changes to the panel, but I’m looking forward to a stimulating discussion from the panelists. Follow along for the liveblog at 1300 EST (1800 GMT).To refresh your memory, the panelists are: Steven Houston (Hamburg […]
Day 1 of the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is done, and it was a long, tiring, but informative day. But before I talk about the first day, I should first mention the Soccer Analysts meetup the night before. Sarah Rudd of the On Football blog (and now an employee of StatDNA) organized the […]
I’m packing my bags and grabbing my laptop and business cards for the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference starting tomorrow. Some final items before I go: I arrive in Boston tomorrow afternoon, and will be there until about 3pm Saturday afternoon. I will be at the Soccer Analysts meetup that Sarah Rudd is organizing tomorrow night […]
This post is the third and final preview article of the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference from a soccer perspective. In this post I will discuss the Soccer Analytics panel.As I said in the first part of my preview, I first attended the SSAC in 2010. It turned out to be very good timing […]
This is the second of my three-part preview of the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. In this post I will look at the Evolution of Sport presentations from a soccer analytics perspective.The SSAC added an Evolution of Sport (EOS) session last year to highlight presentations on ideas, technologies, or thoughts that have the potential […]
This is the first of a three-part preview of the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. In this post I will take a look at the ten finalists of the Research Paper Competition.The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference started a Research Paper session in 2010, coincidentally, my first year at the conference. It’s been a very […]
There’s a really great conference in Silicon Valley on data science called the O’Reilly Strata Conference. It is a three-day conference that contains plenary and invited talks on various aspects of data science, from database, analysis, and visualization platforms to applications in industry, government, and academia to the policy implications of data-driven companies. I am particularly […]
Rob Carroll, who operates a performance analyst site called The Video Analyst, has written a very detailed two-part summary of the Sports Analytics conference that was held in Manchester a couple of weeks ago. Part One is available here and Part Two is here. Highlights of the conference were presentations by Bill Gerrard on evidence-based […]
