AUEB R Seminars

The Sports Analytics Group of the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB)

announces the short course on

BASKETBALL DATA SCIENCE

as a part of the

6th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (AUEB SAW2022)

​The course will be delivered by Professor Paola Zuccolotto and Professor Ma**ca Manisera from University of Brescia, authors of the best seller book with the same title.

The course will be hosted in a hybrid form (virtual and live) at AUEB, Athens (Greece) on the evenings of Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th of May 2022 (Day 1 ~12.00-16.00, Day 2 14.00-18.00, Greek time, EEST (Eastern European Summer Time), GMT+3).

Course Program

DAY 1
12.00-16.00 Monday 23/5/2022 (Hybrid)
Lecture 1
• Data science in basketball
• Basketball data
• Introduction to the R package BasketballAnalyzeR
• Basic statistical analyses using BasketballAnalyzeR (1/2)

DAY 2
14.00-18.00 Tuesday 24/5/2022 (Hybrid)
Lecture 2
• Basic statistical analyses using BasketballAnalyzeR (2/2)
• Discovering Patterns in data
• Finding groups in data

Bibliography
• Paola Zuccolotto and Ma**ca Manisera, Basketball Data Science. With Applications in R. CRC Press, 2020.
• Marco Sandri, Paola Zuccolotto, Ma**ca Manisera (2020), BasketballAnalyzeR: Analysis and Visualization of Basketball Data. R package version 0.5.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BasketballAnalyzeR
• Marco Sandri, The R package BasketballAnalyzeR, in: Zuccolotto P. and Manisera M., Basketball Data Science, 2020, Chapter 6.
• Paola Zuccolotto, Ma**ca Manisera, Marco Sandri (2021), Alley‐oop! Basketball analytics in R, Significance, 26-31 https://doi.org/10.1111/1740-9713.01507

All participants must bring their own laptops fully charged with R and the R package BasketballAnalyzeR already installed.
How to install it: https://bdsports.unibs.it/basketballanalyzer/
For any problem, please write to [email protected]

All course participants will receive a certificate of attendance if they attend in both four-hour sessions.

Early registration will be available until Sunday 15 May 2022.

Web-page of Basketball Data Science course@SAW2022 is available here https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2022/short-course

Apply now here https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2022/registration

Limited positions are available for live attendance.

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