Name
Basketball Analytics (Addison McGhee)
Date & Time
Friday, April 11, 2025, 4:05 PM - 5:15 PM
Description
This workshop aims to provide participants with a solid base for directing their own basketball analytics projects using the R programming language. We will review some of the R packages that are designed for acquisition of NBA data, creating visualizations like shot charts and assist networks, and performing statistical analyses. Additionally, for those whose March Madness bracket didn't perform as well as they had hoped, this workshop will go over some basic strategies to improve predictions for future tournaments.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with R and RStudio. Recommended to have some familiarity with basketball.
Training Materials on GitHub: https://github.com/Addison-McGhee/ucsas25_basketball_R-Public
Location Name
1327AB
Full Address
Kline Tower
219 Prospect St
13th and 14th Floors, Registration Table in Room 1401
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
219 Prospect St
13th and 14th Floors, Registration Table in Room 1401
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
Session Type
Workshop
Virtual Event Link
Title
Intro to Basketball Analytics using R
Abstract
This workshop aims to provide participants with a solid base for directing their own basketball analytics projects using the R programming language. We will review some of the R packages that are designed for acquisition of NBA data, creating visualizations like shot charts and assist networks, and performing statistical analyses. Additionally, for those whose March Madness bracket didn't perform as well as they had hoped, this workshop will go over some basic strategies to improve predictions for future tournaments.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with R and RStudio. Recommended to have some familiarity with basketball.
Training Materials on GitHub: https://github.com/Addison-McGhee/ucsas25_basketball_R-Public
Prerequisites: Familiarity with R and RStudio. Recommended to have some familiarity with basketball.
Training Materials on GitHub: https://github.com/Addison-McGhee/ucsas25_basketball_R-Public
Speaker Bio
Addison McGhee is a Preceptor in Data Science at Yale University. He earned his M.S. in biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and his B.S. in statistics at UW-Madison. Before coming to Yale, he interned at the pharmaceutical company Repare Therapeutics. Outside of his work, he enjoys working on sports analytics projects for baseball and football.
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