At the beginning of the year, I started to teach an online college course on Data Analytics at a four-year university. This was a completely new experience for me as I had never taught a course before at any level. It was work that was terrifying, uncertain, and demanding, but ultimately very fulfilling. I had […]
Last weekend, I attempted to take advantage of a brief lull that I had after the Joint Mathematics Meeting to make a long-delayed upgrade to my work machine. This machine, which is what I use to store data and run quantitative analyses, is a Linux laptop that’s been running on Ubuntu for the last six years.I […]
This weekend I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Joint Mathematics Meetings that were going on in Atlanta, where I live. I enjoyed presenting my work on Bayesian models of MLS draft value, as well as interacting with academics and their students on the intersections of mathematics and sports. I am fascinated […]
UPDATE (21 January 2016): I added some additional content throughout the post, but especially in the caveats, what to learn and where to learn it, and breaking into sports analytics. I also added Dean Oliver’s tweet, which reminded me that you need to know your sport to do sports analytics.UPDATE #2 (9 November 2016): Added a […]
As you know, the Soccermetrics data models are named Marcotti. Over the weekend, the flurry of updates to the projects received some attention: @soccermetrics erm… can’t help but ask… how did u come up with this name? — Gabriele Marcotti (@Marcotti) December 12, 2015After I explained the thinking behind the name, I received this response: […]
On Friday, I’ll be in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for ten days. I’m going for personal reasons — a close friend is getting married — but football will definitely be on the agenda. Unfortunately, thanks to AFA’s unpredictable scheduling practices, matches involving me and my friend’s respective clubs –Vélez Sarsfield and Argentinos Juniors — that were […]
When we were in the UK, we attended a couple of Premier League matches. I’ve already written about our trip to Manchester to see City vs Sunderland. Now it’s time to write about the second match that we saw 27 hours later: Tottenham vs Aston Villa. (more…)
While we were in the UK, we had the opportunity to attend a couple of English Premier League matches. I thought it would be fun to share our experience and pictures with our readers. Below is Part I: (more…)
I noticed an uptick in my visitor logs from the Red Cafe website, which is a forum for Manchester United supporters. This is the post that drew in today's visits, and here is another post on the forum (that one by Rational Football's "letranger0") that referenced this site. To all of you visiting, welcome! And […]
As I transition from my current job to my startup, I've started to think about my professional society memberships. Overall they have been useful in personal and professional networking with other professionals in my field, presenting technical publications, and receiving member discounts. I plan on maintaining membership in most of them, but some will be […]
